COMMITMENT;
UNCERTAINTY; SERVICE: PRIVILEGE OF

But the lives of consecrated people are never their own. To sit back in selfish composure and plan the future is never an option to those who have made the great commitment. They are at the call of Another, and at any time they may receive orders to pick up and move on. This is one of the penalties they must pay for the high privilege of serving God, and if seen from a low point it looks like a hard and unsatisfactory way to live. But the truest appraisal of a way of life is always made at the end of it. Who that have placed themselves at the disposal of God and humanity have ever been sorry at the end of life that they did so? Not one, and that is the best argument for the excellence of the devoted life.

Acts 20:24; 1 Corinthians 6:19–20; 2 Timothy 4:6–8; Hebrews 11:8–10

Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray, 94, 95.