Glory (the movie)

He looks around and people are just clueless about the war that is being fought. Blood, gore, death, struggle. Someone offers to put him in charge of a regiment. They think they are doing him a favor, but there is no favor in it. Just death. But he makes favor of it. He takes charge of a black regiment that becomes very successful even though if they get caught there will be a severe penalty. In the end, he makes the choice that his men will be the first to charge a very well guarded fortress, even though he knows that all of his men will die. He does it because he knows that he has nothing to lose, and because he knows that it will lead to an eventual victory, and they will have died for the cause.
This is what Christians are about. Making glory out of being a servant. Going to the lowest place, picking up death, and marching with it into the battle of life. There is a penalty if we get caught - persecution. That is why we must die everyday, and consider martyrdom as an optional way to live, or even leave our bodies. We have nothing to lose when we pick up that cross, because we have nothing left to lose. We have gone all the way to the bottom to serve others, and what we earn is stored in an eternal environment, on the other side of death… and because the victory has already been won.
In that movie every one of those soldier's bodies were buried in a trench. But those who lived that day died another. Our choice is the same. Live today and die tomorrow, for eternity, or die now, and live for eternity. Everyone will die, but who will pick up death and march with it. Who will give it their all, and live in eternity.