Life 4 Christ in nickels and dimes...

Fred Craddock:

“To give my life for Christ appears glorious. To pour myself out for others—to pay the ultimate price of martyrdom—I’ll do it. I'm ready, Lord, to go out in a blaze of glory.
“We think that giving our all to the Lord is like taking a thousand dollar bill and laying it on the table. ‘Here's my life, Lord. I'm giving it all.’ But the reality for most of us is that he sends us to the bank and has us cash in the thousand dollars for quarters.
“We go through life putting out twenty-five cents here and fifty cents there. Listen to the neighbor kid's troubles instead of saying, ‘Get lost.’ Go to a committee meeting. Give a cup of water to a shaky old man in a nursing home. Usually giving our life to Christ isn't glorious. It's done in all those little acts of love, twenty-five cents at a time.
“It would be easy to go out in a flash of glory; it's harder to live the Christian life little by little over the long haul.”