Perspective

Each time I get down to the last few days before a mission trip things always get a little crazy. And when that happens I typically ask myself, "What were you thinking? Why did you plan this trip? Do you realize everything that will not get done while you are gone?" This week as I was "freaking out" over those questions I took a deep breath and it was in that brief moment of calmness that the Lord spoke giving me "perspective".

As I stressed over "work" related things it was as if the Lord asked me, "To what lengths would you go Tom to make sure your children were saved? What if they had never heard of Me? What would you be willing to do to make sure that had every opportunity to be saved?" The answer was obvious in my mind. No "length" would be too far to ensure that they knew the Lord; to ensure that heaven would be their home. As I affirmed that to the Lord that He quickly spoke truth into my life that cut me to the quick so to speak. It was as if He asked me, "Do you think My Son went to the cross any more for your children then He did for the children of where you are going?" Humbly and broken I admitted the answer we both knew to be true, "No, He did not!" The Lord then said to put all these other issues I was stressing over aside, they were secondary. What He had for me the next couple of weeks was a matter of children's eternity's.

I think it was J. Oswald Smith who said "No one has a right to hear the gospel twice, until everyone has heard it once."