stars.martyr.new eyes.

"Ben looked up at a black sky swollen with stars. It was the most beautiful sky he'd ever seen. The stars seemed like pinpoints, brilliant blue and red and white, as if behind the black veil there was a great blast furnace on the verge of exploding through the pinpoints and consuming earth in its heat and light. Ben felt like there points of light were arrows aimed at him. He longed to be pierced by them, yet was on guard to prevent that very thing.
'Behold,' the old man said, 'the face of God.'
Pushan was blocked by the hill they'd traveled over. Ben couldn't see light from a single house.
'The face of God is easily blocked out by the lights of man,' the old man said. 'It is there for us every cloudless night. Yet how seldom we look at it.' " - Safely Home by Randy Alcorn.

"I am willing to take up the cross and go forward,
To follow the apostles down the road of sacrifice.
That tens of thousands precious souls can be saved,
I am willing to leave all and be a martyr for the Lord...
I am willing to die gloriously for the Lord." - Safely Home by Randy Alcorn...

"Heaven is my fatherland, Heaven is my home."- Safely Home by Randy Alcorn

"Real gold rears no fire."- Safely Home by Randy Alcorn

I love Randy Alcorn.

Also.
I am a Christian.. who happens to be a teenager. Not, a teenager who happens to be a Christian.

I see people with new eyes. Every single person I meet is NOT just another person, but a precious soul. So from now on I regard no one from a worldly point of view.

2 Corinthians 5:18-20 (English Standard Version)

18All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 20Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:18-20 (New International Version)

18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:18-20 (Amplified Bible)

18But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself (received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself) and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation (that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him).

19It was God (personally present) in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against (men) their trespasses (but canceling them), and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favor).

20So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We (as Christ's personal representatives) beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor (now offered you) and be reconciled to God.

(I couldn't decide on just one version. =P)

Go here (http://www.sgmidatlantic.com/YouthCamp2008/) and listen to Joe Lechner's talk on. IS IT WORTH YOUR LIFE.. its.. amazing.