“Show me the right path, O Lord;?point out the road for me to follow.? Lead me by your truth and teach me,?for you are the God who saves me.?All day long I put my hope in you.” Psalms 25:4-5 "’
"Not called!’ did you say??’Not heard the call,’ I think you should say.?Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help.
"Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world."
— William Booth
I was once told that missions is a such a sacrifice, and that it was only for the people who were specifically “called” to the mission field. Well I am now more than ever realizing how missions is no sacrifice but truly a “privilege.”
Now i know you may be thinking, “easy for you to say, your not on overseas yet.” True, but even by us stepping out in faith and taking the “less traveled path” into this thing called “missions,” we have been overwhelmed at what God does for us and who and what He truly is.
God desires a intimate relationship with His children so dearly and it’s not that He’s lonely and needs some company, but that “He is in LOVE with us” and just wants us to know that, and realize who is He is.
We are in route to go over seas and go into a remote location and live among people that us Americans would consider not worth going to or think they have no intelligence at all. But these tribal people; are the same people that Jesus Christ had in mind when He left His Heavenly position and became a mere human and died the death of a sinner for.
And hearing stories of different “tribes” that are coming to a saving knowledge of Christ and the sincerity in their hearts when they say, “Thank you Jesus for what you did.” Or hearing stories of these tribal people rite after salvation they ask the missionary there, “When can we go and tell the other tribes?”
Why is it that these remote tribal people; can understand better than us “civilized” “intelligent” Americans that the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Word of God are so important that they “have to go and tell everyone else in the jungle.”
They understand that this message is so important that they will hike days, not have any food or drink and that they will put aside the fact they have been warring with other tribes for centuries, and want to go and speak the name of Christ.
I am humbled at these stories of souls that have been controlled by the dark lies of satan for centuries have come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and have entered into His Kingdom and the Passion they now have to love and serve the “TRUE God.”
Being used by our Gracious Creator to do His work and to be able to witness these live changing testimonies is no sacrifice, but a PRIVILEGE. And am ever reminded that God does not need me! He is Sovereign and His work will be done with or with out me and i (WE) are HONORED that He allows us to serve Him and to call Him Abba Father.
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