October 26, medicine for the missionary.

All things are possible with God, Mark 10, 27.

Sovereign grace is the spring of life for the Christian

hedonist.

For what the Christian hedonist loves best

is the experience of the sovereign grace of God

filling him and overflowing for the good of others.

Christian hedonist missionaries love the experience of

not I, but the grace of God that is with me,

1 Corinthians 1510. They bask in the truth

that the fruit of their missionary labor is entirely

of God, 1 Corinthians 3, 7, Romans 11, 36.

They feel only gladness when the master says,

apart from me, you can do nothing. John 15, 5,

they leap like lambs over the truth that God has taken the impossible weight

of new creation off their shoulders and put it on his own.

Without begrudging, they say, not that we are

sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us,

but our sufficiency is from God, 2 Corinthians 3, 5.

When they come home on furlough, nothing gives them more joy

than to say to churches, I will not venture to speak of anything,

accept what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience

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