DYED TO LIVE
John Howard Griffin conducted a bold and practical experiment as explained in Journey into Shame. This white man dyed himself black in order to feel and experience the lot of the colored man in the deep south. He literally “dyed to live” and get the feel of shame, the shame of being shunned, not as a number-two creature but, as he discovered, a number ten in the scale of humanity. Yet Mr. Griffin’s Journey into Shame was only a sojourn. Now he sheds all the shame and the sojourn, and leaves that race and that shame. It was not so with our Savior; when He came into our humanity, He literally “became flesh and tabernacled among us.” He took upon Himself the frail garment of our fading and shameful flesh. He came to be so one with us that He was touched with the feeling of our infirmities, tempted in all points like as we are. And His was no mere…
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