It's what Jesus wants that matters

Here's a rare guest appearance by my husband. He wrote something I thought worth passing on to you on his Facebook page today, in response to this post on John Piper's blog (by Jon Bloom).

I love this paragraph by Jon: 

David working with some students.

If we choose the Pearl [ed: that is Jesus], we hear in Judas’s objection the world’s appraisal of us. They watch as we pour our valuable time, intellects, money, youth, financial futures, and vocations out on Jesus’s feet. They watch them puddle in the bowls of churches, mission fields, orphanages, and homes where children are raised and careers are lost. And what they see is foolish waste. Expect their rebuke, not their respect.

Unfortunately we hear this not just from non-Christians, but Christians within the missionary community in Japan. Not rebukes, but softer than that: "it's such a pity". They wonder why we're wasting our time and apparently our ministry by going on home assignment.

This is what David wrote this morning:

Facing a year of telling people about mission. Is what I do with my time worth it?Facing a year of putting down my current role for another one. Is it the best thing to do?"All for Jesus, I surrender" are the words I keep remembering. My year in Australia is what Jesus wants, I am convinced. So it will be worth it and and it is the best thing to do, because it is what he thinks that matters.