A Cause Worth It

One of the quotes that has served to frame my life in the last several years has come from President Teddy Roosevelt.  I have included it here today.

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.  The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never know neither victory nor defeat." - Teddy Roosevelt 

         The call to follow Christ means that we participate.  Did you hear that? Participate!!! The cause is worth dying for to see the nations come to know the glory of King Jesus.  There will always be those who watch and criticize, and if they were honest, they long to be in the arena of taking the gospel to their neighborhoods or to the nations.  I want my soul to never be cold and timid, but white hot in pursuit of his name.  You?