"Ye are the light of the world."
During World War II a pilot was shot down while flying over a South Pacific island. He bailed out, and as he drifted down he wondered what kind of reception he might receive. Would there be cannibals?
Landing in rough terrain, he broke both his legs. The natives found him and carried him in a sheet back to the village. On the sheet he saw printed the name of a missionary society. Years before, a missionary had been in the area. Under his Christlike ministry the people of the island had become Christians.
When the pilot recovered, he walked to the cemetery where the missionary was buried. On the tombstone the natives had written:
“When he came there was no light. When he died there was no darkness.”
These words could be spoken in thousands of villages where Gospel Outreach workers have ministered. But there is much left to do. In India alone some 500,000 villages are unreached with the Gospel. And the people in numerous other villages in the 10/40 Window have never once heard of the full salvation provided by Jesus on the cross.
“Cannot we deny self that the wasting harvest might be gathered” (3T, p. 408). May we, each one, “do something for Christ, and do it now.”