When Will We Get There?

I was reading an article in Send! magazine which is a magazine about reaching the remote areas of Asia for Christ yesterday. The story I was reading was about a young man who had no purpose in life and was on the verge of stepping in front of a speeding train when the voice of Christ spoke to his heart and said, "Why are you doing this? Your life isn't over yet! There is a purpose for your life, that purpose is Me." The young man gave his life to Christ and began traveling to remote areas of his home country with the gospel. For over two years he knocked on doors talking about Christ, handed out tracks, reached people in any way he could. Many of the areas he went to were hostile to Christians and he was once even stoned for his message. For over two years he never saw even one person give their life to Christ. Yet he pressed on, seeking God and crying out to Him daily. In due season, he reaped a bountiful harvest for His Lord! But imagine if he had given up in those times of discouragement and persecution. Times when it seemed that all he was doing he was doing in vain! I remember when I first gave my heart to the Lord and I just burned with a passion to live a radical life like that. As I embraced God's will for my life in marriage and mommyhood with an equal amount of passion and a desire to reach the nations for Christ, to be on the mission field on short term trips, going back and forth from here to other countires, touching people for Christ and handing out food with my children, that vision never left my heart. And it hasn't to this day. But as the days and weeks and years go by, sometimes the tediousness of American life and bills and what seems like mundane living can really dull you down to those dreams that once burned so strong in your heart. It seems as if the thing syou are doing every day are not leading you towards that vision...but as I read that story, I realized that God uses times like these for preparation of what lies ahead. To see my children giving food to needy little children and to be in that place of total abandonment in a place that is nothing like America! I would sell it all and live that radical life, and I know that our hearts desire to walk that out with Jesus is coming closer and closer each day.