Found this at the local YWAM coffee shop. Sure makes you think!
“Perhaps the most effective advertisement ever written appeared in a London newspaper early in the 20th century. ‘Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger. Safe return doubtful.’ Those words were the words written by Sir Ernest Shackleton, the famous South Pole explorer.
Commenting on the overwhelming response he received, Shackleton said, ‘It seemed as though all the men in Great Britain were determined to accompany us.’
Shackleton’s words remind me of Jesus’ words in Matthew 16:24, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.’ The Lord was calling people to go with Him on a hazardous journey – the way of the cross. He issued that call after telling His disciples that He was going to Jerusalem to suffer and be killed.”
Not much more to say. Think it kind of leaves you with your mouth open.
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