“Then Peter took Him to one side and started to remonstrate with Him over this.” “God bless you, Master! Nothing like this must happen to you!” “Then Jesus turned around and said to Peter, ‘Out of my way, Satan!’ . . . you stand right in my path, Peter, when you look at things from man’s point of view and not from God’s.” Matthew 16:21-23 The warmness of Jesus’ presence now filled the little mud house. Would self mar this humble sacrifice? “Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone wants to follow My footsteps, he must give up all right to himself, take up his cross, and follow me!” (Matthew 16:24) The glamorous, romantic idea of the exciting life of a “pioneer missionary” soon fades into the rugged reality of the dogged fulfilling of daily living. The test of consecration comes in the crucible of the common things. Millie mixed the solution and carried it to the barracks, where the Indians would soon be arriving for treatment of suppurating, painful eyes. She bundled up the children’s dirty clothes, measured out the amount of beans and rice to be cooked, gathered the lamps to be filled with kerosene.
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