Promise Keepers Canada’s Men of Integrity Devotional,

published by Christianity Today International.

Theme of the Week: A Matter of Life and Death

Life and Death in Focus

It’s hard to follow Jesus,

but it’s a good hard. To follow Jesus is to choose life over death, heaven over hell forever. The road to life is a good hard. The road to hell is easy, but it ends in a very, very bad hard. [See Mark 8:35-37 and Matt. 7:13-14.]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky understood this. On December 22, 1849, he stood shivering before a firing squad, tied to a post and robed in a white burial shroud. He and a few others had been convicted of treason by Tsar Nicholas I, who wanted to impress upon other intellectuals the gravity of Online Casino promoting radical political views. But at the last minute, as rifles were cocked and raised, and the order, “Ready, aim!” was shouted, a horseman galloped dramatically into the scene with a note from the tsar in hand. Nicholas would commute their sentences to four years of hard labor.

[Someone once said that] the prospect of standing before a firing squad marvelously focuses one’s mind. The experience certainly focused Dostoyevsky’s mind and marked him for the rest of his life. [continued 2/25]

Key Study Passage: Mark 8:34-38

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