Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 Day 3
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 Day 3
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Devotional Wednesday, June 16th, 2010, Day 3
Listen and Follow
Leonard Dober wondered if Jesus had thought the cross too much; then he remembered how Jesus’ prayer in the garden ended, “Not my will, but yours, Father.” Leonard’s task seemed impossible, but he was pursuing God’s will and not his own.
Leonard Dober determined that God’s call to him was to reach slaves in the Virgin Islands. He planned to reach these men and women by selling himself as a slave and working alongside others each day while sharing Jesus’ love with them. The thought of being a slave frightened and sickened him. He dreaded the treatment he would receive. “But Jesus was willing to die on the cross for me,” he thought. “No price is too high to serve him.”
It wasn’t the slave masters who were Leonard’s harshest persecutors, but rather fellow Christians. They questioned his call to minister to slaves and ridiculed him as a fool for his plan. But he would not be persuaded. He arrived in the Virgin Islands late in the 1730s.
When he became a servant in the governor’s house, he feared that this position was too far removed from the slaves to whom he had come to minister. So he left and moved from the governor’s house to a mud hut where he could work one-on-one with slaves.
In just three years, Leonard’s ministry included more than thirteen thousand new Christians.
Leonard Dober was willing to do whatever it took to squeeze the last ounce of devotion from his heart in service to Jesus. For him, that meant a specific plan that made sense to no one but him. Have you been written off because of your freakish refusal to go along with the crowd? If God has asked you to do something radical for him in your family, church, or community, you must obey. Let others call you crazy, but may Jesus find that you listened.
II Corinthans 5:13 ~ If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
Prayer:
Dear God – I don’t know if I could give up my life to be a slave so that others can hear about you. Whatever you ask us to do, help us to listen and follow through on it. We know that you know what is best and that your plans for us are the best. We want to follow you.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen
by The Voice of the Martyrs, Extreme Devotion, 2001.