Topics:<\/b> Commitment; Devotion; Maturity; Ministry; Obedience; Sacrifice<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Romans 8:17\u201318; Philippians 3:7\u201311<\/p>\n
Gladys Aylward, a missionary to China during and after World War II, brought a hundred orphans, ages four to fifteen, safely over the mountains of China to Sian in Shensi.<\/p>\n
But it was not without cost.<\/p>\n
When Aylward arrived in Sian with the children, she was gravely ill. She had suffered internal injuries from a beating by the Japanese invaders in the mission compound at Tsechow. In addition, she was wracked with fever, typhus, pneumonia, malnutrition, shock, and fatigue.<\/p>\n
Through her ordeal Aylward learned to choose Christ over anything else life had to offer. When the man she loved, Colonel Linnan, came to visit her in Sian and asked her to marry him, she declined because she knew marriage would interfere with the work God had given her among the children of China. She said good-bye to Linnan at the train station, and they never met again. Gladys continued serving God in China and England until her death in 1970.<\/p>\n
Through our suffering in ministry, God wants us to learn obedience to increase our maturity in Christ.<\/p>\n
\u2014Gary D. Preston, Character Forged from Conflict<\/i> (Bethany, 1999)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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