What a Bull Named Fu Manchu Teaches About Courage
It may make you think about people that you've lost, or maybe people who are at the end of their lives, or perhaps just sit back and think about the ending of your own life.
Bull Named Fumanchu
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The principle
But today, before we're done, I want to read the lyrics for you from a Tim McGraw song dating back to 2004. It may make you think about people that you've lost, or maybe people who are at the end of their lives, or perhaps just sit back and think about the ending of your own life.
And while most of that is unpleasant, maybe today it can help us understand the way we need to be living.
The deeper lesson
There were some really neat things in his life that he wanted to do that he never had the time to do or the courage to do. Maybe these things were a little scary, maybe they were a little costly, but now you can see him thinking, I'm about to leave this earth, maybe, very soon.
And there are experiences within my grasp, things that I really am passionate about that for some reason I was just never courageous enough to do.
What it changes
What would it be like to go your life without reading the word, never read the New Testament, and then to sit down thinking this could be the end, I need to see what God has to say, and then have it revealed to you the goodness of Jesus Christ and the life he wants to build. And as you're doing that, to have it playing through your mind how many things you would have done differently if you could back up, read the word first, and do it all again.
As someone who was raised in the church around the word, I don't know what that would feel like.
Live it today
That was kind of their version of skydiving, rocky mountain climbing, or 2.7 seconds on a bull named after facial hair, the courage to live a life true to my passions, the courage to share the way that I feel, and the courage to let myself enjoy this life. I'm sure it would be very sad as a nurse to hear people say that, effectively telling you I have no opportunity to do those things, and I really wish I would have.
Well, Lord willing, you, the one listening to this episode today, you are not dying, but you need to live like it.
Take the idea with you.
- 01Where do I see the problem or opportunity described in “What a Bull Named Fu Manchu Teaches About Courage” in my own life?
- 02What Scripture or spiritual principle in this study most needs my attention?
- 03What one specific change can I make this week to put this teaching into practice?
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