My Limits.

I wonder if I would die for something. I'm pretty sure I could die for someone, but what about something less tangible? Like a belief? Honestly, would I?

If you know me, then you probably know that the only thing I actually believe in is Christ. So would I die for Him? Gosh I don't know. It's seems hard enough to live for Him, so could I die for Him? There is a "House M.D." quote that says "Dying is easy, living is hard"...I wonder if that's true.

The honest answer is I don't know, and neither does anyone else. When the gun is to our head, the knife to our heart, the noose to our neck, how will we respond to the prospect of death under that pressure? Right now I don't know how I might respond to dying for a belief greater than me. Maybe someday I will be placed in those circumstances and we'll see if its something I'm able to do, though I'm not looking foreword to it.

I'm reminded of a quote that I friend showed me from "Catcher In The Rye" by J.D. Salinger;

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."

Laying down our lives for someone or for something bigger is a noble gesture. However, we aren't supposed to live with a death wish. Were supposed to live our lives humbly and loving to those around us. Someday we will be called to die, maybe prematurely for something, but living isn't about dying. Dying is just apart of living.