Thursday, October 22, 2009

Nice to know Him.

No longer do I call you servants...but I have called you friends. (John 15:15)

Rene Lacoste [was] the world's top tennis player in the late 1920s.... His friends called him "Le Crocodile"...for his tenacious play on the court. Lacoste...had a tiny crocodile embroidered on his tennis blazer [and later] added it to a line of shirts he designed.... While thousands of people around the world wore "alligator shirts," the emblem always had a deeper significance for Lacoste's friends, who knew its origin and meaning.

The cross, an emblem of Christianity, holds special meaning for every friend of Christ.... It speaks to us of Christ's tenacious determination to do His Father's will by dying for us on Calvary. What a privilege to know Him.