Reading a missionary story: Never Too Old!

The touching story of Philip Reiswig, missionary to the Crimea.

Read it from: "Miracles on the Mountain" by Bradley Booth (c) 2012. p 91-98.

Highlights:

"I think the biggest problem is that we all want to send a missionary, but none of us want to be the missionary!"

"I am old, but I will go."

A twinge of sadness as he saw the land of his home fade into the distance as he knew it would be his last trip.

"I did not come all the way from South Dakota to here in the Crimea to just make shoes. I came to give away Bible tracks."

"Could you read this tract for me? I left my glasses."

Soon groups of Sabbath believers were springing up across the Crimea.

Let us say with Phillip: Here am I, send me!

Pray with us for a spark.

Immunity

Today we completed the vaccinations we needed for the trip. Needless to say the boys thought they were pin cushions by the time we left the medical office! There were enough shots that two nurses worked together on each of us. Needle after needle, after needle.

As miserable as is the experience of getting vaccinations, getting the root disease would be worse. We have started the suffering for others, but Christ makes our suffering sweet.

As we ate lunch today, we thought about what a vaccination would be like in comparison to the Christian life. Sunshine related the experience of Jesus from John 14:30, "Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me." Jesus had a sin vaccination from His Father. This is not to say that Jesus was not tempted, for He surely was, but Jesus was dependent on His Father moment by moment, and sin had no room left to take root.

We need the vaccine for sin. We need an injection of God's character, to so completely fill us that there is no place of our bodies left unprotected. May we be able to communicate how beautiful God's love is that others invite Him into their hearts.


Pray with us for a spark.