by Jon Konnerup
What is 750,000 miles long, can wrap itself around the earth 30 times, and grows 20 miles longer each day? It is the line of people on earth who do not yet know Jesus as Savior.
Robertson McQuilken in his book The Great Omission wrote:
“… in a world in which nine out of every ten people is lost, three or four have never heard the way out, and one of every two cannot hear, the church sleeps on. How come? Could it be we think there must be some other way? Or perhaps we don’t really care that much.”
Betty Stam’s covenant made as a high school student was:
“Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes, all my own desires and hopes, and accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all utterly to Thee to be Thine forever. Fill me with Thy Holy Spirit. Use me as Thou wilt; send me where Thou wilt; work out Thy whole will in my life at any cost, now and forever.”
C. T. Studd wrote from Cambridge in 1883:
“I had known about Jesus dying for me, but I had never understood that, if He had died for me, then I didn’t belong to myself. Redemption means buying back, so that if I belong to Him, either I had to be a thief, and keep what wasn’t mine, or else I had to give up everything to God. When I came to see that Jesus had died for me, it didn’t seem hard to give up all for Him?”
Theodore Williams of India said:
“We face a humanity that is too precious to neglect. We know a remedy for the ills of the world too wonderful to withhold. We have a Christ too glorious to hide. We have an adventure that is too thrilling to miss.”
George Murray said that for years he was “willing to go, but planning to stay.” Not until he became willing to stay, but planning to go did God move him to Italy.
What is God doing in your life right now? When God speaks to you, all He wants you to do is surrender and join Him. He is preparing you for an assignment. It could be tomorrow or a few years from now. Be assured, He will prepare you to be equipped for whatever He is setting up for you.
Ask God to reveal to you through His Word what He would have you to do as you give your life to him. Are you willing to go but planning to stay or willing to stay but planning to go? More missionaries are needed to reach the ever-growing line of people who do not know Jesus as their Savior.