How to Live an Epic LifeSample

John Bunyan was an English writer and minister who was arrested for preaching the gospel. He was imprisoned, and while there he wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress. While it is the work he is most known for, he also wrote many hymns. One of those hymns reads like this:

He that is down needs fear no fall,

he that is low, no pride;

he that is humble ever shall

have God to be his guide.

If you have humbled yourself, that is where you are going to have success in your life. Another wrote, “…the ax cannot boast of the trees it has cut down.” It is really what we are in the hand of God. God is using us, but we cannot boast because it is God doing the work. 

Hudson Taylor was a great missionary to China. He was an incredibly famous man and would often travel to speak at churches. At one church in Melbourne, Australia, the moderator was introducing him in very eloquent terms and talking about all of Taylor’s accomplishments in China. He then presented Taylor as, “Our illustrious guest.”

Taylor stood quietly at the pulpit for a moment, then said: “Dear friends, I am the little servant of an illustrious Master.”

Friend, the key to being epic is to know the love God has for you, to rest in the security of His love, and finally to follow the example of the One Who loved you and gave Himself for you by humbling yourself. Only then will you truly be able to live an epic life.