As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.

We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.

If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all

Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength.

We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.