Such a precious reminder of what is truly important.
“If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty as well as the
gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen
for so noble and sacred a calling, you would have no hesitation in
embracing it. 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. . . . 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
hereafter be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice. Of this
we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which He made, who left His Father’s throne on high to give Himself for us.” - David Livingstone
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