Plan A

Thabiti Anyabwile post:  The Key to Radical Living for Jesus

From David Platt’s Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream:

John Paton, Jim Elliot, and C.T. Studd all illustrate one fundamental truth: your life is free to be radical when you see death as reward.  This is the essence of what Jesus taught in Matthew 10, and I believe it is the key to taking back your faith from the American dream.
The key is realizing–and believing–that this world is not your home.  If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.  Though you and I live in the United States of America now, we must fix our attention on “a better country–a heavenly one.”  though you and I find ourselves surrounded by the lure of temporary pleasure, we must fasten our affections on the one who promises eternal treasure that will never spoil or fade.  If your life or my life is going to count on earth, we must start by concentrating on heaven.  For then, and only then, will you and I be free to take radical risks, knowing that what awaits us is radical reward.

Seems to me this is not only the key to taking our faith back from the American dream, but also the Caymanian dream, the British dream, the Canadian dream, the French dream, and every other dream that keeps us asleep in the comforts of this life.  Thanks, David, for giving us all a rough shake to wake us from this world’s dreams.