Brothers and sisters, yesterday for a first time I felt in a such way that time is going very fast and I felt like I am growing older.
This night in a talk with a brother, he shared how God gave him an illustration using his one and a half year old son and the bubbles from the produced from washing the dishes that his son wanted to eat. He said: "My son likes them, and he goes through great difficulties to get to them, and he goes and carries chairs...drags boxes, whatever he may find to be able and climb to these bubbles"
Aren't we sometimes striving to catch bubbles in our lives? Isn't our very life like a bubble?
[b]James 4:14
I was reminded of the words of Nate Saint,
Nate Saint, along with Jim Elliot and three others, American missionaries
were all martyred by the Auka Indians, in 1956 in Ecuador.
It was only after many years, that Steve Saint, Nate's son,
Nate was the pilot, found out all the details of what had happened.
the killing of his father and others.
When I just read the account a few weeks back of the details of the martyrdom,
it was an overwhelming thing to read it was painful, it was tragic,
it was tremendously moving.
One of the men, the last one, instead of running into the jungle
where he could have easily gotten away,
he just waded out to the water, and in his broken dialect said,
"Why are you killing us, we're not hurting you?
And waited there till they came and speared him too.
And no sooner had they killed the last one,
each one, the different ones, began to hear singing,
and they looked up and there were these glowing beams in the trees,
singing and praising God.
Then when they were waiting and hiding ,
waiting for the retaliation, nobody came to kill them.
They began to realize, something is different about these people,
that’s why they were so open the Gospel when they came back.
It's an extraordinary story.
Listen to what Nate Saint wrote years earlier,
people who do not know the Lord
ask why in the world do we waste our lives as missionaries?[i]They forget they too are expending their lives,
and when their bubble has burst
they will have nothing of eternal significance
to show for the years they have wasted.
[b]Everybody’s bubble is going to burst,
everyone us at the end of our lives-its gone!
Than what? What do we spend our lives for?
What do we pour ourselves out for?
What do we give ourselves to?
Having a full life is not necessary a long life.
I want at the end of my life to say I have fulfilled the purposes of God.
*Taken from [url=http://dimensionsoftruth.org/mp3/Martyrs%20Prayer.mp3]here