God Will Take Us At Our Word

HAVE BEEN AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER AND CONNECTIVITY FOR SEVERAL DAYS...NOW AT A FOOD CITY OUTSIDE BRISTOL, TN for a little while. Above is a photo I took Friday on the trail at the magnificent Grayson Highlands State Park at 4,500' in SW Virginia.

Below,  is a link to a piece from Tim Challies:  God Will Take Us At Our Word. It begins: 

The kingdom of God is in every way opposite to the kingdom of this world. We see this clearly described in a powerful bit of preaching from an old Wesleyan minister. His text was Matthew 16:24-25: “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.”