Children Who Abandoned Themselves To Christ's Cause

When I read this Extreme Devotion today, it fit so perfectly with my own personal devotions this morning that I just had to share with you.  Remember this is taken from the book Extreme Devotion, which you may purchase at the VOM bookstore.

Ephesians 5:1 says, "Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

After hundreds had died needlessly in Timisoara in 1989, other demonstrations spontaneously broke out in different cities all across Romania. During one protest, a group of thirteen children made a human barrier with their bodies to keep the soldiers from advancing on the crowd. When the soldiers began to advance anyway, the children knelt and shouted, “Please don’t kill us.”