What would you die for? What do you live for?
I was aware of the Florida shooting as it flashed across TV screens however I did not connect fully with the story until today. I was watching the service from Marble Church when the Senior Pastor Michael Brown posed the question, “What would do die for?” He then told the story of Aaron Feis the football coach at the school who shielded students and as a consequence of his courage, he died.
We now look for the stories of hope when we hear the news of violent attacks. We need something to raise our hope and belief when devastation hits. Coach Feis takes his place in the countless number of people who have laid down their lives for others.
It causes us to ponder as Dr Brown asked, “ What would be prepared to die for?”
Those who die in the name of a cause while taking innocent lives with them may have loved their cause though love was no part of their deed.
It has taken a long while for me to realise that only true love counts. Our lives are a story about how we respond to love. It will be as deep and as high to the measure we have loved.
I felt a small rebuke from the spirit today. I had been going on the other day about not feeling moved enough to do something more for asylum seekers. I felt the spirit say,
“You project yourself into the future when you say, “Why am I not doing more?” Your task is to live as prompted by me and as long as you do that you do not have to concern yourself with what you are not doing and focus rather on what you are doing.”
It was Eashoa who said,
“ Come unto me all who are heavy laden and I will give you rest for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
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