Audio Book -- Gun Lap
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You're listening to the audio production of gun lamp staying in the race with purpose by robert Wohlgemuth. Published by B and H Publishing Group and read by Rodney Rice. This book is dedicated to Nick Cialis, March, 5 2002 November 3 2020. How strange you might think for a book written for men in their forties and fifties, getting ready for their sixties and seventies to be dedicated to a man who stepped into heaven at age 20. In fact, Nick is a man I never met. But I do know his parents tim and Eileen. These folks got the phone call. Parents dread with everything in their being In an instant, with no warning at all. Their 20 year old son was gone at his son's memorial service. Tim spoke these words. Each one of us is given a race to run. Some are called to run a long race, some are called to run just a short race. What matters is not how long the race is, but how well we'll run it. It's God's business to determine how long that race will be. It's our business to determine how well will run it. Let me tell you, it is so much better to run a short race well than a long race poorly. God called Nick to run just a short race. Some people get 80 years, some get 90. Nick got only 20, but he ran well. J. I. Packer was a man who ran a very long race indeed. And he once said this. My contention is that we should aim to be found running the last lap of the race of our christian life, as we would say, flat out the final sprint. So I urge should be a sprint. Indeed, that was my boy. He sprinted strong to the end, Nick's story and the way his precious parents have faced this tragedy with singular courage and grace has been such an inspiration and encouragement for me since. Well, as for now, I'm still running. And since you're reading this apparently. So are you, like his dad said about him, may you and I sprint to the end?