“Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.” Proverbs 19:20
We have been impressed by some young friends. These apprentice missionaries, living in a local setting, learning a local language, heard the call to go out further.
The remote area is a 40 minute drive from the nearest small town where only the very basics can be purchased. It is hot and dry in the hot season and hot and wet in the rainy season.
During the rains, the rivers will swell cutting them off, for days at a time, from their town and those friendly missionary neighbors – from medical help if needed – leaving them isolated.
However, they will make friends with those whom they live among, those to whom they minister, those to whom they tell the story of God’s grace.
Spending several hours together today, they asked for advice, trying to glean something from what we experienced and learned during our years on the mission field and our time in South Sudan.
They are Proverbs 19:20 young people, seeking advice and council to gain wisdom for the future. We pray we were helpful.
Willingly, they begin a difficult journey – yet, many times those are the most rewarding.
Ask for God’s blessing to fall upon this young couple; that they would continue the journey understanding that while God’s call isn't easy, He is with them.
Pray that we, and others living in easier situations, would find ways of ministering to those whom God has called to plant their lives in the hard places.
Pray that we all would be Proverbs 19:20 people.