If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go?
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of following one's calling and the duty to act in accordance with spiritual responsibilities.
Hudson Taylor's quote reflects the tension between comfort and duty, urging individuals to pursue their true purpose rather than remain in a place of complacency. It challenges the reader to reconsider their commitment to their beliefs and the extent to which they are willing to act upon them, especially when it comes to serving others and fulfilling a spiritual mission.
In practice
In a sermon discussing missionary work, this quote can inspire attendees to consider their personal call to service.
We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.
When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.
The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."
I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.
When God gets ready to shake America, He may not take the Ph.D. and the D.D. God may choose a country boy ... God may choose the man that no one knows, a little nobody, to shake America for Jesus Christ in this day, and I pray that He would!
But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.
Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.
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