"In Pakistan last year when a radical Muslim mob of about 3,000 came to burn the Christian village of Korian, the Christian families ran for their lives. But 86-year-old believer Baba Qadar could not run. He could not even walk. The mob found him lying on his bed outside his house.
He told us, "My family wanted to take me but I could not run. I forced them to run for safety. I told them, 'Go! I will remain here.' About 20 to 30 of the attackers surrounded my bed. One of them shouted at me, 'You are old, so it is better that you accept the true religion. We will not beat you if you say the Kalma (the Muslim confession of faith).' I said, 'No, no, I will not say this. Burn me or kill me or do whatever you like. I have said my Kalma and that is Jesus Christ.'
1 Peter 1:6-7
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
Jesus, PLEASE let me understand that you are way more valuable than my life. Today, if someone threatened to kill me unless I gave you up, I really hope I would say "NO, NO!" If my family stopped supporting me and banned me from coming back home because of you, I pray that I would stay with you. Jesus, I don't want to ditch you if I lost friends because I follow you. Letting things in life distract me from reading your word and spending time with you is evidence that I would give you up and I am so sorry for that. PLEASE! I don't want to stop being with you. I want to be with you forever. No matter what happens to me. You gave it all for me. I want to give it all for you.
For real, Jesus.
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