LET’S ROLL: Risk Taking—For Life!
Blog / Produced by The High Calling
Those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake and the gospel, will save it. (Luke 9:24)
Todd Beamer's last recorded words, "Let's Roll," have become a rallying cry for those willing to take risks, huge personal risks, for the sake of a higher calling: God's call to love, to truth, to justice, to venturing with Christ.
On September 11 on Flight 93, Todd Beamer laid down his life and spared hundreds, perhaps thousands, from a terrorist attack. God calls each of us to venture forth into the journey of life with and for the living, ruling Christ—in friendship, obedience and trust. Such a life is risky; it takes courage. Yet our risk-taking, even laying down our lives, is not a leap into a bottomless pit, but into the loving, secure arms of the Savior: " . . . keeping our eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race." (Hebrews 12:2) It is a leap of faith into the Great Adventure.
What a venture! "Let's Roll!"
Lord, I want to join you in the Great Adventure: your purpose, your mission. Grant me the courage to take that risk into life—to be like Abraham who left the safe and secure to travel to a new and unknown land, to a new venture. Strengthen my trust in you, keep my eyes on you, risen, living, loving, life-giving Lord.
