Obedience

For some reason, I've been learning about obedience lately. It started in Ukraine last April when a team member told a story about trying to reach a teenage boy. He did everything he knew, but the young man ended up dying tragically. The lesson was that the outcome didn't make this was a failure. The real failure would have been if he hadn't attempted to reach out.

A couple of weeks ago I made a comment to a friend that I thought was pretty clever. I told him I was learning to be bolder in asking people to support Mulberry. I said that there really wasn't any difference between me not asking for a donation and you saying no. His response was that there is a big difference. If he says no, I have still been obedient to the position God has given me.

Applying this to Mulberry, I am beginning to realize that we don't exist to "rescue" children from an unbelievably hard life. We exist to introduce them to Jesus and a chance at an eternal life. If every child we touch grows old, fat and happy that won't indicate that we've succeeded. Our success will come if we remain obedient and let God do the rest.

Don't grow weary.