This is a featured post by Daniella Amell. Daniella is a freshman studying in the College of Arts and Sciences. She’s a history major from Long Island.
[Editors’ Note: This is a reflection on the LiveDead challenge that Chi Alpha groups nationwide are doing during the months of October-November.Interested in taking the challenge? Ask someone like Daniella about it TODAY or check it out here.]
On Day 18 of Live Dead, Alan Johnson talks about the condition he calls “apostolic functions” when Christians take up their crosses, and feel the “burden of Spirit” to go where Jesus is not yet known. The more I read Live Dead the more I realize that the people who answer this call are no different from me. They love God, but they still have their struggles, and they question God in many of the same ways that I do. But the difference is their complete and total obedience. No one wants to leave a world of comfort, family, friends to go to place that they have never seen, to live with people they don’t know, and to speak a language they never knew. Missionaries do it, because they have given up their lives as lost, and they know that
“If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the lord” Romans 14:8.
HE is the only one who matters.
Live Dead is helping me learn that lesson, little by little and day by day.
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