Thoughtful Thursday : All The Way

 

    This morning I had the luxury of sitting on the couch, eating my peanut butter toast, drinking coffee, and listening to Ravi Zacharias. He has a lot of good, free, podcasts available online, and I really enjoy listening to him.  If you are interested in listening too, Click Here to listen to the message I was listening to this morning.  Its a really good message and I felt convicted after listening.  Ravi told a story saying, 

   "Years ago I was given the great privilege to be in Shanghai in the home of the famed Chinese evangelist Wang Ming Dao. He told us that he was put in prison for his faith in Jesus Christ, but he soon renounced his faith and was released from his imprisonment. Thereafter, he says, he lived with such torment of his soul that he walked the streets of Beijing saying, “My name is Peter; my name is Peter. I’ve denied my Lord.” Soon, Mao Zedong put him back into prison—this time for eighteen years. Wang Ming Dao said every day in prison he woke up and sang the hymn by the hymn writer Fanny Crosby,

All the way my Savior leads me;

What have I to ask beside?

Can I doubt his tender mercy,

Who through life has been my guide?

Heav’nly peace, divinest comfort,

Here by faith in Him to dwell!

For I know whate’er befall me,

Jesus doeth all things well.

At first the guards tried to silence him. When they weren’t able to succeed, they resignedly put up with his singing. Gradually, as the years went by, they would gather near the opening to his cell to listen as he sang of God’s faithfulness to him. Eventually, they began to ask him to sing to them and to teach them the words of the song. Such is the impact of one who walks faithfully with God."

It convicted me... Is my life a life of faith that impacts others? 

Show me your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths.
 Lead me in your truth, and teach me:
for You are the God of my salvation;
on you do I wait all the day.
Psalm 25:4-5