times. Few missionaries last out even a first term without seriously questioning their “calling” and con fronting all over again the challenge, “ Is this really where God wants me?” Personally, I could not condemn my brother’s irresoluteness too harshly. As a first term mission ary, I was reeling from bitter defeats. I was fighting and losing the old battle of language. Succumbing to loneliness and discouragement, I would have given anything for a successful States ministry. Some weeks later, Don wrote, “Dick, your broth er, as usual, has made a fool of himself. For a year now I have been thinking of myself as God’s answer to the needs of American young people. With the solid help of well-meaning friends, I have come to consider myself indispensable to the church here. Think of the young people I could influence to go to India if I would stay in the States! "Yielding to pride within and pressure without, I withdrew my C.I.G.M. application. But how miser able I was! I went through weeks of restlessness. We talk a lot about the peace of God but man, nothing teaches one what peace is like going without it. “ I have now applied to The Evangelical Alliance Mission and am on my way to some place named Khandesh. It is kind of scary, Dick, but great to be back on the right track again.” For Don, the right track led to India. Orientation, language, a hundred and one adjustments followed by a thousand and one battles. Then fifteen years of preaching to the lost, and teaching and edifying the saved. Don does not claim to be a great mission ary, but his letters revealed that he had a great time being a missionary. * * * You want to be sure you are on the right track or you will never reach God’s goal for you. How do you find that track? In the fascinating biographies that follow you will hear men ask that same question. You may be sur prised at the variety of ways God guided them. How often the deciding straw was a little thing— a Scrip ture text on the wall, the chance word of a friend at church, a magazine article, a party place card. But each time God’s guidance came with divine force, the assuring power of His Spirit. For most of these men and women, the problem is not so much a problem of knowing as a problem of willing. Each of us faces a crisis of the will. Like stubborn padlocks, we stick at some point. It may be location . . . vocation . . . language . . . marriage . . . or a dozen other things. Our specific block may seem as out of proportion to the consequences as the eating of the fruit that caused the loss of Paradise. The real issue for each of us is whether we will open our lives to God. Will we obey God? KB Reprinted from Chapter One of Born to Climb by Dr. Dick Hillis. Word Books, Waco, Texas. Copyright 1967. 34
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