The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected

by Nik Ripken

“Boys, when we lived back in America, even before you were born, your mama and I had to answer a very important question: Were we willing to live our lives for Jesus? You know that your mama made that decision as a little girl. And you’ve heard me tell the story of how I was eighteen before I decided that I would follow Jesus and live my life for him. Then before your mama and I got married, we made certain that we agreed and we decided that we were willing to live for Jesus together—as a couple and as a family.” “Later, when we were thinking about being overseas workers, we had to answer another important question: Were we willing to GO with Jesus and live our lives for Him in another part of the world? We came to live in Africa after we said another ‘yes’ to that question.” “Now, we’ve come to live in Kenya so we can take food and medicine to help feed and save the lives of many thousands of people—children, parents, entire families—who live in Somalia. The reason we do this is to show God’s love to the Somali people who have never had a chance to know about Jesus and His love for them. But because these Somalis live in a country that is such a hard, dangerous, and bad place right now, your mama and I have to answer another very difficult question. We have always said that we were willing to live for Jesus. Then we decided that we would go with Jesus. We’ve said yes to both of those questions.” “But now, we have to ask ourselves, Are we willing to DIE for Jesus?” We didn...