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Posted on 02/12/2024 11:24:11 AM PST by boycott
"I remember asking myself questions. I'm trying to be a better man, I'm trying to be a good man. And I remember asking myself the question, what is a good man, and I was dwelling on it for weeks. I pride myself on being a good man. But really what is that? I'm sitting in my prayer time, my quiet time, God started speaking to me, telling me a good man is a dead man. And at first I heard that and I was like, I don't really know what that means. I want to live. But then he revealed it to me.
"One of the first requirements that Jesus gave his disciples was to take up his cross, and to follow Him. A lot of us think of cross as gold crosses they wear on their neck or may have a tattoo. But the cross was an instrument of torture. It was an instrument of humiliation. It was an instrument that for an evil cause, but what Jesus did when he got on the cross was turn it into a beautiful thing. The fact that he died on that cross and made the cross a beautiful thing is what God was saying to me. A good man is a dead man. A good man is a man who is willing to pick up his cross and follow Jesus. A good man is a man who's willing to get up on that cross daily, sometimes multiple times throughout the day, pin his flesh to it and continue to follow Christ."
And that is something Fitzpatrick tries to do in all of the work he does both on and off the field.
(Excerpt) Read more at steelers.com ...
I'm sitting in my prayer time, my quiet time, God started speaking to me, telling me a good man is a dead man. …Uh-oh.
I don’t want to take that out of context. God has a way of communicating with all of us.
Yep.
Uh oh.
Hey now.
Who was talking about it? That’s the unanswered question.
He spelled it out with: A good man is a man who's willing to get up on that cross daily, sometimes multiple times throughout the day, pin his flesh to it and continue to follow Christ.
He's not advocating violence. He's advocating that each of us take up the cross and follow Jesus even though it means some sacrifice.
That’s not what I was talking about either.
MINKAH shitzpatrick? The SCUMBAG who likely ended potential hall of famer Nick Chubb’s career with that filthy hit? F that ass clown.
Before I click on Steeler.com who is Fitzpatrick?
ROLL TIDE Minkah!
Before I click on Steeler.com who is Fitzpatrick?
Minkah Fitzpatrick
Didn’t know anything about this man but it’s great to read about him.
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