Any Distance, Any Time
For several years, I’ve corresponded with a pastor in Nepal who
often travels with his church members to distant communities in the
Himalayas to preach and plant churches. Recently he sent me his
itinerary for the following week and asked me to pray.
His busy schedule revealed that over the course of a week he planned
to travel by motorcycle about 160 kilometers (100 miles) to several
cities to preach and hand out gospel tracts.
I wondered at the great distances my friend would cover over
mountainous terrain, and I wrote to ask how he was holding up. He
replied, “We had a wonderful time of marching in the mountains with our
church members. All do not have motorcycles . . . so we all walked. It
was a blessed time. Still more places to go.” And then I was reminded of
how “Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their
synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom” (Matt. 9:35).
I thought of my reluctance to drive across town in the snow to visit a
lonely widower; to walk across the street to help a neighbor; to answer
a knock on the door from a needy friend when I’m busy; to go any time,
any place, any distance for the sake of love. And I thought of our Lord,
for whom no distance was too great.
Christ traveled to the earth below
And left behind His throne above;
No distance was too great for Him
Because He was compelled by love. —Sper
And left behind His throne above;
No distance was too great for Him
Because He was compelled by love. —Sper
What God gave to us, He wants us to share.
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