Missionary Moments
Posted by nathan on 23 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: my life., thoughts on god.
This past weekend I was privileged to spend some quality time with a missionary. He talked about his life and showed me photographs of his daughters–teenagers, and he was away from them for most of the year. And then it hit me: This guy is away from his wife and kids more than he is in the same country!
Talk about dedication. Seven months of the year, he is in a different continent. The five months he’s in the same country, he travels the country. Talk about dedication and commitment.
So I wondered about myself: Would I be willing to make such a commitment, leaving my wife for months at a time, in order to follow God’s call?
Man…that one hurts!
How would you answer that?
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on 23 Oct 2007 at 7:43 pm 1.
joe said …
This is actually something that I’ve wondered about myself. Am I really committed to God, in spite of any sacrifice it requires of me?
It is painful to consider a sacrifice. Jesus sent the rich man away, because he couldn’t part with his stuff. He could do all the right stuff, but his heart was attached to earthly things. I may not be married, but I certainly have things that are painful to let go of so that I can pursue God, so I guess I can identify, even if on a different level.
Keith Green has a song, that I think speaks perfectly to this question,