I guess you could call this Adoniram Judson, Part 2.  Last week I shared part of Judson’s testimony of how he “fled to Jesus” in times of trial and discouragement.  What I didn’t include was what he wrote later on in that same letter.  It’s not so much a comfort as last week’s thought as it is a challenge.  A real challenge.  Adoniram Judson wrote this: “Let me pray that the trials which we respectively are called to endure may wean us from the world and rivet our hearts on things above.  Soon we shall be in Heaven.  O, let us live as we shall then wish we had done.”  Think about it.  How will we wish we had lived once we are in the Savior’s presence?  Then let us strive to live that way now.  Today.  How is that possible?  In the same paragraph, Judson went on to write, “Let us be humble, unaspiring, indifferent equally to worldly comfort and the applause of men, absorbed in Christ….”  I think he hit the nail on the head.  We must be “absorbed in Christ” to the point that nothing else matters.  The Apostle John said something similar when he wrote, “And now, little children, abide in Him; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at his coming” (1 John 2:28).  Boy, is this Adoniram Judson book convicting.  Maybe I should have picked another one to read.  No, I think this is just what I needed.  How about you?