Nehemiah 2:9Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.
Finally Nehemiah was set on a 800 miles, 3 months, day and night journey from Persia to Jerusalem. He reached the border “Beyond the River” and will be stepping into the land of Judah after giving the letters to governors at the check post.
Nehemiah prayed, planned and he got into his mission now.
It costed him his comfort, luxury, his safety, his stress free life, but he opted for it.
We sometimes substitute "talking about" evangelism for actually "doing" it. We keep talking about sinful, unjust world and to an extent, we pray about it. But our Lord, is the God of missions. He didn’t “keep talking” Himself about the sinful world, He did something about it. It costed Him, His only Beloved Son! He sent His Only Beloved Son as a first missionary to this world.
As the children of God, like Nehemiah, we are not just called to “speak about,” “pray about” a broken wall but to go and do something for it. Going and doing would cost us our comfort, our convenience, our time, effort, energy, our peaceful and stress free life, would get our hands dirty.
But just Imagine if God didn’t send His only Son to this World, imagine if the missionaries from the western countries didn’t come to us, owing to their comfortable life, where we would have been?
We are ought to go into the world, meet the people in dire and sinful situations, touch their lives with the good news of the gospel, NOT BECAUSE WE ARE RESCUERS, BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN RESCUED!!
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
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