How a demoniac at-war factors Jesus in his decision to live or die is an interesting one, and, now facing this very decision, I've decided that these two Bible verses better apply: For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. ( Matthew 16:25 ) ...and... For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. ( Romans 14:7-9 ) If they didn't apply, I would probably choose life—just to give myself more time in this world to become relevant to it. But, I digress. Back to this big decision I have to make today: whether to stay in Indiana or to head back into a full-scale war for my life and that of my little family (Long and Scratchen) in California, which some...
My inevitable demise, daily.