Even if we do not lead anyone to Christ but we have obeyed in speaking the gospel, we have been counted as obeying.
Sometimes missionaries worked for 30 years without one convert, they died and the next missionaries led many to Christ from all the foundation the first missionaries laid for the people.
We cannot judge a person by how many people came to Christ because of their work. We lay the ground work and Christ brings the increase.
1 Corinthians 3:6-7 " 6 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.…"
We also cannot judge another man's work, what looks like little to us, God can make bigger in His way and His timing. When we look at "circumstances" rather than obeying by faith, we could very often be discouraged.
Our faith is not based on our own results, but on the power of Christ to take His message wherever He wants it to go.
Perhaps there will be little old ladies who sat in their favorite rocking chair day after day, year after year, who never led anyone to Christ but faithfully prayed for those around her, those on the mission field and those in her families. No one would see the results of her prayers, not even her, but God did things she and onlookers never saw or heard about.
Stop judging another man's work and begin asking Christ what He wants you to do.
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