A great book

I am enjoying reading this book by Oswald Chambers, which was given to us by my mother and father-in-law. (Thank you, Dad and Mom Jore!) It is called, "So Send I You/Workmen of God" - that is, it is 2 books in one volume. It is a real gem of a book! I find it very interesting that sometimes I "discover" a book at just the right time when I may be thinking about the very issues the book addresses. To me, that is a sign of my Heavenly Father providing resources for encouragement and food for the soul at the right time.

Recently as I have contemplated our first term of service so far, it has brought me back to thinking about our call to come here. A whole host of questions have welled up inside of me as I thought back to 2 1/2 years ago, and looked ahead to the end of our 1st term in 17 months. Wow, what does it mean to be "successful" in God's eyes? Has our time here been successful to the Lord? How can we make the most of each moment with our time left here?

Here's a quote from Chambers' book:
"The greatest need of the missionary is to be ready to face Jesus Christ at any and every turn, and it is not easy to be ready to do that, whatever our experience of sanctification may be. The great battle all along is not so much against sin as against being so absorbed in work that we are not ready to face Jesus Christ. The one great need is not to face our beliefs and our creeds, or the question of whether we are of any use or not, but to face our Lord. This attitude of being ready to face Him means more and more disentanglement from so-called religious work, and more and more intense spiritual reality in so-called secular work. The whole meaning of the Christian life from our Lord's standpoint is to be ready for Him."