COURAGE

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The King of Prussia was an agnostic and his chief General Von Zeland was a devout Christian.

An open conflict was inevitable, that is if Von Zeland was a man of courageous conviction concerning his belief.

Therefore, one night, at a festive banquet, the King was busy making crude jokes about Christ until everyone was rocking with laughter (whether they thought it was funny or not).

With the exception of General Von Zealand.

In the midst of this raucous behavior the old military leader slowly rose to his feet and in a firm unwavering voice addressed his King.

“Sire,” he began “I have faced death many times as I have fought 38 battles for you and now I am an old man who soon will go into the presence of One greater than you will ever be.

Therefore, I cannot sit silently while saying nothing as you blaspheme my Lord. I salute you sire as my King but my greater allegiance is to my greater King.”

As he finished, he sat down and waited for a kingly eruption, an angry explosion, with no idea of what would follow.

The room had gone completely silent and the King spoke, “General Von Zeland…I beg your pardon. I beg your pardon.”

And I thought as I first read this story and am now sharing it with you, “The world is so ready and in need of those who are not ashamed of their faith…and who are busy making courage a majority emotion in this old world.

So I challenge the both of us to stand tall while remembering that we stand the tallest when we are on our knees.

Courage comes dressed in many types of clothing; sometimes hardly spectacular, wee moments that will never make the headlines, but no less courageous on the pages of time.

The farmer, is courageous each time he plows his fields and prepares his crops for he cannot be sure that rain will come or that drought will come instead. This kind of courage that says I will look to an unknown future and I will not fail to keep on keeping on.

The courage our faith gives us when we face both life and death because it is the kind of courage that has the strength of the promise of resurrection and eternity in it.

In Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet” he puts in the mouth of Polonius the words “To thine own self be true.” And that is what it is all about as he further writes “Not be false to any man.” Therein lays that special courage we all can practice; not drifting with the tide or blown before every wind but sturdy and stable and true to who we want to be and know we ought to be.

The integrity of courage.

Psalm 27:1
The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?


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A QUOTE BELOW FROM TOMORROW’S ONE A DAY BLOG entitled WHAT IS COURAGE?

”John Wesley said, “Give me a hundred men who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I will shake the world. I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; and such alone will overthrow the kingdom of Satan and build up the Kingdom of God on earth.”

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A QUOTE below FROM THE PRAYER SERIES

“When you prayed, first did you listen? Some people take the scripture that reads “Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth” and rewrite it to read, “Listen Lord, thy servant speaketh.” (1 Samuel 3:10)

Could what you prayed for be considered a Christian prayer? Remember …if you end your prayer with the words “In Jesus name” you certainly want to have prayed a prayer he would approve.

Was it a prayer you really wanted to be answered, something you really wanted to take place, an improvement in your person you were really committed to following through on. A half hearted prayer is a wasted opportunity.”

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