"It doesn't matter whether I travel 6,000 miles or just twenty minutes from home. That has nothing to do with it. What matters is whether the people we meet matter to us as much as they matter to God. I have to ask myself, What will make me care? What will make them matter to me? What will motivate me to share Jesus with them?"

The above quote is from a message given by Helen Roseveare (former medical missionary to Zaire) at the Urbana Missions Conference in 1987. The full article can be viewed here.

(In the article there is a story about a young girl and her horse, where the horse represents something we hold on to that keeps us from joyfully following Jesus wherever He leads us.)

Only a heart that is surrendered to and centered on Christ will find sufficient and consistent motivation for making a real and eternal difference in people's lives.

May we each examine our own hearts to make sure we have indeed "crossed-out-the-I..."