World missions is the greatest work of God taking place in the world today. Put your mind on this great phenomenon. A team of missionaries specifically trained to evangelize and serve the 'elect' on the other side of the globe is sent by a local congregation. Imagine! If Christ is real and there is healing in His wings, then what could be greater?
Hardly can we compare it with anything on the earth: let's send one billion dollars to a foreign people; let's send a group of Peace Corps workers, engineers or English teachers; let's build a steel mill or set us a publishing company in a foreign country. Think of the greatest service imaginable to a foreign people and we don't rise one percent to the height of what Christ does in one heart with the Gospel.
Like the man healed of demons and sitting peacefully in his right mind at the feet of Jesus so likewise all of our converts are absolutely changed. But some people don't notice them. They see the drowned pigs and pray a miserable prayer... Jesus, leave our coasts, please leave us alone.
Are your eyes open? Do you see the value of one changed life, or do you see the messy consequences of the healing... in this case, drowned pigs.
Problems exist in mission work, but do you see the blessing? Do you know the power of His Holy Spirit when we go forward preaching the Gospel into all parts of the world?
Jesus Christ asked the healed man to go home and share with his family what he had done for him. Some time later, the people who asked Him to leave were waiting with anticipation for his return.
We should not stop. People who wished for our departure are today waiting for our return. Perhaps they realized that they also need Jesus Christ. God sends us out with power. He said, "Bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth," (Isaiah 43:6).
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