In late July, i was coming to an end of working at two different places of employment at the same time. Since I would have more spare time, I decided to go into our office and pick out a good book off of the book shelf. The first book that caught my attention was The End of the Spear by Steve Saint. Steve was the son of one of the 5 missionaries that were brutally killed in the jungle of Ecuador that set out to share the Gospel to unreached people groups.
As I have slowly been making my way through this book, the Lord has been teaching me many things; one of them being something that I believe we have all struggled with: feeling inadequate to be used by the King.
As the main focus of the book is about God changing the hearts and lives of the most feared tribe in the World (the Waodani, formerly known as the Aucas), there is a big lesson to be learned from Steve's late Aunt Rachel.
Aunt Rachel, as a young girl, was offered the riches of the World from a very wealthy woman who was passing away. This woman wanted to leave Rachel all of her money. For a reason that the world and this woman could not understand, Rachel turned her down, knowing the the Lord had big plans for her that did not include ties to something that would hold her back from being able to follow His will. To make a long story short, Rachel was asked to leave the woman's house and was banished for her "foolish" decision.
Rachel ended up living among the most fierce tribe and becoming a part of their family. As she came to the end of her life, dying from cancer among the Waodani, Aunt Rachel began to reveal her lack of qualifications to Steve as he visited her in the jungle:
"Isn't is something that the Lord Jesus would have used someone like me to do His work in this special place? I was too old to apply for missionary service, I couldn't help the Waodani that much medically, I was not a Bible scholar, and i wasn't a superior translator....
"...{I just} loved the Lord Jesus with all of my heart, and I trusted Him completely." [End of the Spear, p. 184]
As my husband Jason always says, "He doesn't call the equipped, He equips the called." Isn't is great to know that we can be used by Him, if we just trust Him with all of our hearts and lean wholly on Him.
Please go and read this book. it is very inspiring and encouraging.
Continue to pray for me (kathryn) as I gear up to leave for Haiti in 2 weeks. To know more or support us through prayer/finances, please email vicars4missions@gmail.com
So that all may know Him,
Kathryn
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