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<\/p>\nYes, you have! \u00a0Just getting out of bed in the morning is a risk!\u00a0 We never know what our day will bring forth.<\/p>\n
I think of the resent collapse of the condo building in South Florida – those people didn\u2019t go to bed thinking, \u201cTonight, I\u2019m going to meet my Maker!\u201d\u00a0 In another situation, a co-worker of mine was riding his motorcycle to work a few weeks back, obeying all the rules of the roads.\u00a0 Someone ran a stop sign and t-boned him, breaking his jaw and an eye socket, detaching the retina in same eye, giving him a concussion and other scrapes and bruises on his body.\u00a0 He did not wake up that morning thinking, \u201cThis is good day to have a wreck!\u201d<\/p>\n
We are not in control of what happens in our lives and, often, don\u2019t even think that our day may contain great risk to life and limb.\u00a0 When it happens, we must trust in the One who is working all things out for our good!\u00a0 That is hard to do, but<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n in the picture is one of the arrows that was pulled from Dave\u2019s body.\u00a0 In redecorating the lobby of our old building, or in our move to the tower location, this artifact was thrown out.\u00a0 My co-worker rescued it before it hit the dumpster, and now it hangs in our maintenance office.\u00a0 He thought it good to remember, to be reminded, of the risk and sacrifice that many have made to see the Gospel taken to the ends of the earth.\u00a0 I agree!<\/p>\n How much risk are we willing to take to see the Gospel advanced to the ends of the earth?\u00a0 As I contemplate the risk from our comfort zone here in the States, I am reminded of a quote by Jim Elliot.\u00a0 He was a missionary martyred by the Auca Indians in Ecuador back in the early 1950\u2019s.\u00a0 On October 28, 1949 he wrote in his journel, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you ever risked your life for something? Yes, you have! \u00a0Just getting out of bed in the morning is a risk!\u00a0 We never know what our day will bring forth. I think of the resent collapse of the condo building in South Florida – those people didn\u2019t go to bed thinking, \u201cTonight, I\u2019m going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448],"class_list":{"0":"post-2253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-ethnos360","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2021\/12\/PXL_20210815_223932615-600x450.jpg\")
The arrow that we\u00a0hold in our hands<\/h1>\n