“The life of man is a continual death, unless it be that Christ lives in him.”

Conditions at the Chinese labor camp were brutal. With the food rations down to almost nothing and the subfreezing winter temperatures, an epidemic broke out in the camp. When winter began, there were thirteen hundred prisoners. When spring came, only two hundred fifty had survived.

“Why do you continue these meetings?” the secret policeman asked the Christian. “Do you think your neighbors wouldn’t report you to us?”

At 5:00 A.M. they heard pounding on the door and immediately knew it was a police raid. Sabina’s husband was already in prison, and she worried about the fate of her young son if she were taken away, too. So when the Romanian police burst in early that morning, shouting and intimidating her houseguests, Sabina quietly prayed and committed herself and her family to God’s care.

This week's Extreme Devotion from Voice of the Martyrs.

Here is today's devotion from VOM's group Extreme Devotion. Which has left me with the question, "Am I willing to gladly accept the penalty of naming the name of Jesus as my Lord and Savior?"

Here is another great excerpt from the popular book Extreme Devotion. Click here to order.

Before burning at the stake for teaching the Bible, Dr. Rowland Taylor wrote these beautiful words: