Dear Friends,
Today’s Milk Can continues a series exploring the questions; “What is vision?” and “How do we get it?”
In the movie Braveheart, William Wallace, played by Mel Gibson, a commoner, rallies his people in a war of independence from England. An ill equipped, untrained army stands on a battlefield facing the professional army of England. Fear begins to grip the Scotts when Wallace rides in front of the troops.
“I am William Wallace. And I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance of tyranny! You’ve come to fight as free men, and free man you are! What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?”
One soldier answers, “Against that? No, we will run and we will live!”
“Yes,” Wallace replies, “fight, and you may die. Run, and you will live . . . at least awhile. And dying in your bed many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance—just one chance—to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they’ll never take our freedom!”
You may watch the scene from the movie here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr_OpFxCx-A
A God-given vision is bigger than us. A God-given vision will call for you to lay down your life, figuratively, and sometimes literally. But when we reach the end of our days. Do we want to look back with longing for the day when history could have been changed or do we want to be remembered for choosing to truly live? Jesus said, “For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it” (Matthew 16:25, NIV).
Blessings,
Stephen
Story of William Wallace taken from the book:
Parrott, Les. You’re stronger than you think : the power to do what you feel you can’t. Carol Stream, Ill: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 2012. (Pages 172-173).