Indeed, the Lord has His gallery of heroes. Our daughter met, these last few days, men
who have been imprisoned, tortured, threatened and otherwise persecuted for
their faith. But all they really want to
talk about is the glory of what the Lord is doing among them.
She's sat on the dirt floors eating with men and women who
have given up who-know-how-much to provide loving hospitality to this visiting
group, from the meager bit they have— “Definitely one of the poorer villages we visited, but they were overflowing with love and just beamed at
us. They were overjoyed to serve us a
meal, even though it had probably cost them a lot.”
And I read Psalm
90: Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him…I will
set him on high, because he has known My Name.
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor him…”
When we set our
hearts on something, how do we act?
Think? What do we then do?
And Psalm 89: Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon
us, and establish the work of our hands for us….the footnote reads, “Wanderers
in the desert leave no monuments, but God can give eternal significance to the
deeds of hands that serve Him…”
Wanderers in the
desert…Men in Cambodia who killed under the Khmer Rouge, who killed just to
eat, and now pastor several churches; men who have given all they have, and
barely eat every day so they can proclaim the gospel to just one more village,
just one more person. Women who raise up
families in barest poverty but surrounded by love. Or women out on the mission
field who invest every gift they’ve been given, into their husband’s work and in
raising their family joyfully, amidst beating back the jungle and the paganism.
The heavenly
monuments will encase some remarkable stories.
In our own sphere, shall we set our hearts on the eternal significance
of our work, serving Him with what He has put in our hands to do?
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