Old movies offer some powerful lessons—lessons that our generation could easily miss. "Prisoner of Zenda," for example, a movie released in 1937, portrays the intense and genuine love between a princess and a commoner. He pleads for her to run away with him, but by her strength and depth of conviction, she stops him cold, replying, "It is my duty do be here with my people!" Such a response might have been acceptable in the thirties, but in the eighties an appeal to duty or convictions would be looked upon as unusual and outdated—even by people in the church. —Bob Mumford
Psalm 61:8 (NIV) Then will I ever sing praise to your name and fulfill my vows day after day.
Elesha Hodge, comp., Today's Best Illustrations – Volumes 1-4, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "DUTY".
