"And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father of mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life? Mt. 19:29
A few times my wife and I have had the privilege of having missionaries in our home, or for a meal in a restaurant, or as guests in churches where we served.
Recently we had that opportunity as a teenager we had known in such a situation had grown up, married and become the wife of a missionary now serving in a very different culture in a distant land.
She and her husband were stateside to enroll their teenage son and daughter in Bible College.
How much we enjoyed lunch together just days before this couple would become separated from their "never away from home" teenage son and daughter as they prepared themselves for whatever God's will may be.
As I read the words of Jesus, above, my mind returned to that visit we had enjoyed with this missionary mom and dad who for the first time in their lives would leave behind their this son and daughter.
My wife and I thank God such a dedicated and loving family separating to respond faithfully to the call of God upon each of their lives. The words of Jesus, above, were being lived out before our eyes, and we praised God for the blessing He poured out on us.
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