October 2006
Dear Friends and Co-laborers in Missions,
Greetings in the blessed name of our Lord Jesus Christ who calls His disciples to take up their cross and follow Him. It is said that, “Sacrificial living is the faithful missionary’s lot.” The following excerpt from the noted missionary, David Livingstone, who suffered much for the cause of missions in Africa. Here is what he had to say on the subject of sacrifice:
“For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word in such a view, and with such a thought! It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.” An excerpt from a messaged delivered at Cambridge University, December 4, 1857.
Thank you dear friends for your faithful prayers and support for our mission fields. We know that some of you are giving “sacrificially” to assist us in this great work. We pray the Lord will continue to make you “cheerful givers” as you consider Him who is worthy of all our sacrifices.
In Christ’s Service and Yours,
Dennis E. Roe, General Secretary
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.”—Romans 12:1
Posted on October 16th, 2006 by Rev. Dennis Roe
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