I wonder what I would give to be spoken of in such high regards. It's one thing to be called faithful amongst a group of believers, and a whole other thing to be called "more faithful".
I find myself in reading Nehemiah chapter 7, asking "what would i have to give up to be spoken of in such a way?"
Comfort
Time
Friends
Family
My life?
I once heard a preacher give an example of this sort of thing. a young man who admired this preacher greatly came to him after a sermon saying "I would give my life to have heart like you do, to know God like you do, to have faith like you do" to which the very wise preacher replied
"I have"
of course i would love to be spoken of in such this way, or as Paul and Silas were spoken of in Acts 17 "these men who have turned the world upside down..." but i am not sure what i am willing to give up to be spoken of in such a way. i suppose that's the clue that i shouldn't be spoken of this way.
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