“We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the twentieth century does not reckon with.  But we are “harmless,” and therefore unharmed.  We are spiritual pacifists, non-militants, conscientious objectors in this battle-to-the death with principalities and powers in high places.  Meekness must be had for contract with men, but brash, outspoken boldness is required to take part in the comradeship of the Cross.  We are “sideliners”- coaching and criticizing the real wrestlers while content to sit by and leave the enemies of God unchallenged.  The world cannot hate us, we are too much like its own.  Oh that God would make us dangerous!”
— Jim Elliot

I can say I don’t want to be ordinary, or a sideliner, or this or that, but what am I really doing to be dangerous for God? Dangerous in a good way. As a friend of mine was prone to say, what am I doing to “be on fire for God”? I do not want “old red legs” to think that I am not worth his time, harmless. My life should be lived in such a way that he is fearful of my service to God. My life should not be easy or comfortable.

Okay, okay, it’s scary to say things like that, especially to other people because someone might actually hold me accountable. But my labor, my struggles, my rewards, look toward a time spent in eternity. What is that quote I have heard, something similar to “God, grant me not opportunities suited to my abilities, but abilities suited to my opportunities.”

“Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.”
James 2:24, The King James Version