The Reward of My Suffering (Paris Reidhead)
What? I didn't send you out there for their sake. And I heard as clearly as I've ever heard, though it wasn't with physical voice, but it was the echo of truth of the ages finding its way into an open heart. I heard God say to my heart that day something like this. I didn't send you to Africa for the sake of the heathen. I sent you to Africa for my sake. They deserve hell, but I love them. And I endured the agonies of hell for them. I didn't send you out there for them. I sent you out there for me. Do I not deserve the reward of my suffering? Don't I deserve those for whom I died? And it reversed it all and changed it all and righted it all. And I wasn't any longer working for Micah and ten shekels in a jar, but I was serving the living God. I was there not for the sake of the heathen. I was there for the Savior that has endured the agonies of hell for the heathen who didn't deserve it. But he deserved them because he died for them.