Episode 182 - Valuing the Eternal

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham.The first two English missionaries to the island of New Hebrides were killed and eaten by the cannibals when they arrived. Despite knowing this, John Paton and his wife determined to risk the dangers to reach these people. As they announced their plans to their church, one of the elder members discouraged the effort, by declaring, “You will be eaten by cannibals!” John Paton responded, “Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can live and die serving and honoring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms.”The world tells us that we should cling to our lives and do everything possible to defend them. But God’s call for us is different. The goal of the Christian life is not to be safe, it is to invest in the eternal, and that requires sacrifice.