Dick Hillis, a good friend and mentor to my father, was one of the early missionaries to China. Many countries at that time did not allow anyone to speak the Gospel. When a colleague of his was executed in another nation, Dick cried out, “Will I, too, be captured and murdered? Am I going to die here, too, Lord, alone and thousands of miles from home?” But he didn’t run away. He rose to the challenge. Like a fellow missionary, who said, “We will give our lives to push Christianity one more mile.”  And they did press through many miles.  Most made it through, others did not, but many people who seemed the most difficult to reach responded to the Gospel.

In 2 Corinthians Paul writes, “Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” Most of the trials we face really are light and momentary. And rarely is anybody threatening our lives, but we still struggle to be bold. Embarrassing to confess that, but even so God is calling us. So be bold and share the truth of the Gospel today, you never know the impact you can have as you reach your world.

This is Andrew Palau.