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Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you." Luke 6:31

I recently heard a story about a man who, while hiking in the wilderness had become caught in a blizzard. He walked for hours in the blinding snow and was soaked through, frost bitten, and exhausted. The compulsion to collapse in the snow and sleep unto death was overwhelming and so to his knees he fell.

In a second’s time, he tipped forward from his knees to his elbows, hoping to go fetal, but instead he felt a mass beneath the snow. He had literally stumbled upon another person; a person who he would discover was unconscious, but alive.

He lifted the man across his shoulders and began walking. In less than an hours time he came upon a cabin. This home was occupied, there was a fire burning, and both men were saved.

This man was saved in the saving of another.

This is not a story about finding salvation; if you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you are saved. This is story of finding your purpose in order that you might live more abundantly in your salvation. Frankly, there are too many Christians dying in their faith; dying in their idleness.

The Lord would say to you and I, “Look around my child, there are bodies all around. Pick one up and begin walking.” We have a choice. In our salvation we can curl up and wait to die, or we can live abundantly now in the service we give to others and most importantly, in His precious name. The Bible verse at the top of the page is not about ’getting’ before you die, but ’giving’ so others might live.

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