God Thoughts January 8th

God Thoughts January 8th

Perseverance is necessary for final salvation, and perseverance is certain for all those 

who are in Christ. The works we do on the path of love do not win God’s favor. They result 

from God’s favor. Christ won God’s favor. And we receive him by faith alone. And love is 

the overflow and demonstration of this faith in Christ.  

Across Germany and especially in Munich, the city where they were most active, people 

remember and honor, by naming streets, monuments, even a top literary prize after the 

Scholl siblings and their bold protest group White Rose. To many Germans and to many 

other people around the world now, they are a symbol of bravery and moral conviction in 

the face of immensely powerful oppressors like the Nazi government of Germany.

On February 22nd, 1943, the Scholls stood trial in the Volksgericht, in a “people’s 

court” for political offenses. It was a show trial to make an example of them.

They were quickly found guilty and, the very same day, all three were beheaded by 

guillotine. They were committed idealists and true believers until their last breath.

As the blade dropped, Hans shouted, “let freedom live!”

Sophie Scholl’s last words "How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is 

hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, 

sunny day and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of 

people are awakened and stirred to action?" (https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/teddy-roosevelt-charge-rough-riders.html)

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the 

presence of His glory blameless with great joy, 25 to the only God our Savior, 

through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all 

time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24 NASB