Why Is Missions Worth It?

Why is it worth it to give one's life to missions?

In the past, we see so many missionaries of extraordinary bravery and tenacity and you could ask, "Where does that come from?" Well, we know where weakness and fickleness comes from because we read about it at the end of John 12. At the end of John 12 we read about some who come to some sort of faith in Christ, but they're not prepared to confess him because, we're told, they love the glory of men more than the glory of God.

Now if you are to be tenacious, if you are to be bold, the glory of God must be greater in your perspective than the glory, the appreciation, the applause, the comforts that the world will provide. Therefore, the first thing, if you would have tenacity, is read scripture and read books of good theology so that your vision of God grows so that he is more beautiful to you, more delightful, more enjoyable than anything else, such that you think I would rather live for the glory of God than a comfortable pension, than for having people applaud me in a very comfortable nominal Christian environment. You simply won't live for one, and not the other, unless the glory of God is greater, more compelling to you.

But the other thing about the glory of God is that the glory of God is more enjoyable than any any of the treats of sin or the world, and you must have experienced something of that as a Christian; the sweetness of knowing God. And when you see that that maybe that even that little sample of that that you've tasted, when you see that, when you can grow in that, then you can say "I would not swap closeness to Christ, I would not swap proclaiming his glory to the world for having some small little pocket of glory and comfort for myself." His glory is the light that will drive out the darkness. There is nothing better worth living for, and there is nothing more enjoyable worth living for than the glory of God.‍‍