Cassie was a troubled teen. In her Jr. High years, she hung around the wrong crowd and got into self mutilation and alcohol. But the summer before High School she met a group of friends who eventually led her to Christ. From then on she changed her life. She became a completely different person and it ultimately saved her life from destruction. Well, in April of her junior year in High School she was in the library reading when two young men came up and asked her if she believed in God.
She said yes.
Right then, they shot and killed her.
This was just one of the horrific endings to the teens who lost their life in the Columbine Shooting in 1998.
This story really affected me. What would I have done? What if I had known if I told them I believed in God that I would die. Would I tell them? Would I become a Martyr for Christ?
"Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecute me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me."
So, I guess all I have to say is... Thank you for all those millions of people who stood up for Christ. Whether it was a disciple of Christ himself or a teenager sitting in a Library. You are all heros to me.
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