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As disciples of the Lamb
every day we enter His world,
not the other way around.
In following the Lamb
we watch Him, listen to
Him
no matter where He goes.
We give our lives to the
Lamb,
We give our souls to Him,
We put all else above Him.
Our hearts and minds musn't
stray far from the Lamb's
gaze,
as we feel blessed to be
in it.
We fight our way every day
through every distraction
that
threatens to interfere.
True disciples are in it
for life,
willing to make any sacrifice,
doing whatever is required.
All waking hours are Lamb
hours,
no compensation is needed,
and
working in obscurity preferred.
Complaints are not allowed,
and bitterness has no place,
only thanks for such grace.
Daily tasks are never mundane
as each and every day is
seen
as yet another chance to
glorify.
Living as paupers in the
midst
of the greatest of worldly
wealth,
must in the end be chalked
up to
'For the love of the Lamb.'¹
¹Interestingly,
in his wonderful
book entitled The Horse
God Built,
The Untold Story of Secretariat,
Lawrence Scanlan writes
about the
unrivaled dedication that
a race-
horse groom must have. Eddie
Sweat, Secretariat's groom
appar-
ently exemplified this high
degree
of dedication "for the love
of the
horse", and I could not
help notic-
ing how much being a true
disciple
of Jesus Christ is a lot
like what
Scanlan described. You be
the
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