“Do not be worried about your life, as to what you drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?” (Mt. 7:25).
In the day’s of the Roman persecution, one of the worst things that could happen to a Christian was to be sent to the mines of New Midea in Africa. There the prisoners were brutally whipped, marched through rocky valleys, burned by the sun, branded on their brow with a hot iron, chained so that they were unable to stand erect, sent into the dark mines to work interminable hours: indescribable suffering. When those mines were opened up to visitors, it was discovered that those Christians had etched little words and slogans on the walls of the caves in which they were working. Of all the many words that appear there, two appear more than any others. One is the word “Christ” (Christos); the other is the word…
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