Oct 17 2008
life savers
Here is a link to today’s reading:
Aaron ran into the plague to save the people. He stood between the living and the dead. You can do that today. Loving others completely will include sharing the good news about what Christ has done. To avoid mentioning the truth that could save someone’s life may be socially polite, but it is not love.
Today’s Challenge:
If you had one month to live, who would you need to tell about Jesus? What is stopping you? By staying silent, are you loving them completely or just doing what is easy? Pick one person you need to talk to about Jesus and commit to a friend that you will tell them in the next thirty days.
Textual Reflections:
This is a fantastic story. In the climactic moment we are told that Aaron stood between the living and the dead. The plague was not his fault. The people had rejected God, and yet God was not willing for God’s wrath to be fulfilled. But someone was needed to stand in the way. Can you imagine the fear that Aaron must have felt? Running out into the death.
That is the fear I often feel when I take the risk to tell someone the good news that can save their life. But unless I am willing and unless you are willing to face this fear, who will stand today between the living and the dead? I want to be that one.
on the walk
-Ethan
