Wasting Our Lives?

[stephen]

"People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries.

They forget that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted."

--Nate Saint, missionary pilot, who along with Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Roger Youderian, Pete Fleming were killed in 1956 at the hand of Waorani tribesmen they sought to reach with the Gospel.

In 1958 Jim's widow Elisabeth, along with Rachel Saint (sister of Nate Saint), went to live with the same Waorani tribe.

 

[SpiritLedEd]

They forget that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted."

Many people outside the Kingdom are on their way into the Kingdom because they've looked out the window of their existences and, seeing the days of their lives passing at ever increasing speed, begun to frantically and diligently search outside themselves for signifigance, for a valid reason for living.

If we Christ-followers keep our spiritual eyes and ears open, we'll be alert to the divine appointments the Spirit has lined up for us and we'll have the honor and thrill of being part of the process of these people coming to Christ.

"For we (Christ-followers) are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do.
(Eph 2:10 NIV)

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