My Six Reasons to Keep Fighting
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
“None are so precious in Jesus' sight as the sinners for whom He died.” – C.H. Spurgeon
I shared an exhibitor’s table with a friend at a gun show this past weekend. He was there promoting the Constitution Party and GOA (Gunowners of America), and I was there to encourage people to sign up for our Dare 2B Daring devotional messages as well as for my weekday faith-based political blog, daleglading.com.
Since we were there for about eight hours on Saturday and another four on Sunday, we engaged in quite a bit of conversation on a variety of different subjects. One of our chats went something like this…
Me: People ask me why, at age 65, I am still fighting on the political front, trying to restore the Judeo-Christian principles on which America was founded. Well, I have six reasons… and their names are Brady, Sadie, Levi, Dylan, Bella, and Charlotte. And as long as I have breath in my body and life in my lungs, I will not stop fighting for the sake of my precious grandchildren.
My friend simply nodded his head in agreement and encouraged me to never give up… and I won’t. You see, there is nothing more precious or valuable to me than those six kids, and I want to see them come to saving faith in Christ and to grow up in a country that has a strong moral foundation.
As Charles Spurgeon said in today’s quote, Jesus also had some people whom He valued extremely highly. So highly, in fact, that He voluntarily laid down His life to redeem them.
I encourage you to change that last sentence by deleting the word “them” and replacing it with your name. Maybe then you will begin to experience and understand the “width and length and depth and height” of the love of Christ, which “passes knowledge” (Ephesians 3:18-19).
In the meantime, please read Spurgeon’s closing thoughts below…
“That any of us would be willing to reach the lost is nothing wonderful—they are, after all, our own race; but that He, the offended God, against whom the transgression has been committed, should take upon Himself the form of a servant and bear the sin of many and be willing to receive the worst of sinners—this is marvelous.”
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8 (NKJV)
- Rev. Dale M. Glading, President
