““One obvious and rather sobering meaning of losing your life by confessing Christ is to lose it, literally, physically, in sustaining and defending your belief in Him. We have grown accustomed to thinking of this extreme requirement as applying in history, as we read about the martyrs of the past, including most of the ancient apostles. Now we see, however, that what was historical is moving into the present. [CES Devotional, Sep. 14, 2014]””
