¿Qué quiere Dios de ti? What does God want from you?

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“Si alguno quiere venir en pos de mí, niéguese a sí mismo, y tome su cruz, y sígame. 35 Porque todo el que quiera salvar su vida, la perderá; y todo el que pierda su vida por causa de mí y del evangelio, la salvará." Mar. 8:34-35

Dios quiere que te mueras a ti mismo a fin de salvarte y hacerte útil para salvar a otros. Y tú debes de querer lo mismo.

De la historia de los primeros misioneros enviados de Los Estados Unidos al extranjero, un ejemplo:

Nancy Hasseltine fue la primera esposa de Adoniram Judson. Cuando él le propuso matrimonio, vaciló en contestar. Un “sí” implicaba una vida de esposa de misionero a tierras lejanas y extrañas. Le dijo que le hablara a su padre. Así que, Adoniram le mandó una carta al Sr. John Hasseltine con las siguientes palabras:
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Ahora le tengo que preguntar: si Ud. puede consentir en separarse de su hija esta próxima primavera, para no volverla a ver  en este mundo; si puede consentir en las durezas y aflicciones de una vida misionera; si puede consentir en que se exponga al clima sureño de la India, a todo tipo de carencia y angustia, a la degradación, insulto, persecución, y tal vez hasta una muerte violenta, en nombre de las almas eternas que perecen, la gloria de Sión y de DIOS? ¿Puede consentir en todo esto, en la esperanza de la pronta reunión con su hija en el mundo de gloria, con una corona de justicia que brille con las aclamaciones de alabanza redundando a su Salvador por los paganos salvados de eterna perdición y congoja, mediante los esfuerzos de ella?
"To the Golden Shore" by Courtney Anderson, Zondervan Publising House, 1972. p.83. (trad.: GGS)

​Un amigo de John le dijo, "yo que tú, mantendría a mi hija amarrada a su cama hasta que se fuera ese tipo." Pero John, habiendo visto el testimonio para Jesús en su hija, dio su permiso.

​La embarcación con estos primeros misioneros salió de las costas de Nueva Inglaterra en 1812 rumbo a la India. Terminaron como pioneros de una obra para Dios en Birmania... ¡donde sembraron el resto de sus vidas!

Dios no tiene menos tarea para nosotros que para ellos. Dios no se satisface hoy con una entrega menor a la de ellos.

Nuestro mundo nos necesita enteramente vendidos a Cristo... 

Ahora.

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“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it."  Mar. 8:34-35

God wants you to die to yourself in order to save you and make you useful to others. And you should want the same.

From the story of the first missionaries sent from the United States to a foreign country, an example:

Nancy Hasseltine was the first wife of Adoniram Judson. When he proposed marriage to her, she hesitated to answer. A "yes" would have meant a life as the wife of a missionary to strange and faraway lands. She said he would have to talk to her father. Adoniram wrote to Mr. John Hasseltine with the following words:
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I have now to ask, whether you can consent to part with your daughter early next spring, to see her no more in this world; whether you can consent to her departure, and her subjection to hardships and sufferings of a missionary life; whether you can consent to her exposure to the dangers of the ocean; to the fatal influence of the southern climate of India; to every kind of want and distress; to degradation, insult, persecution, and perhaps a violent death. Can you consent to all this, for the sake of him who left his heavenly home, and died for her and for you, for the sake of perishing, immortal souls; for the sake of Zion, and the glory of God? Can you consent to all this, in hope of soon meeting your daughter in the world of glory, with the crown of righteousness, brightened with the acclamations of praise which shall redound to her Saviour from heathens saved, through her means, from eternal woe and despair?  
​"To the Golden Shore" by Courtney Anderson, Zondervan Publising House, 1972. p.83.

​A friend of John's told him, "If I were you, I would tie my daughter to her bedpost until that fellow left the area." But John, having seen his daughter's testimony for Jesus, gave his permission.

​These first missionaries embarked in 1812 from the coast of New England, headed for India. They ended up pioneering a work for God in Burma... where they sowed the rest of their lives!

God does not have less work for us today than what he had for them. God is not satisfied today with a consecration inferior to theirs.

Our world needs us completely sold out to Jesus Christ...

Now.

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