A New Revolution

I have been pierced..... God has taken my heart and plunged a knife right through it..... I will never be the same!!!! I am reading a book called "Revolution in World Missions", by K.P. Yohannan. Dr. Yohannan is the founder of Gospel for Asia a ministry that supports, sends, trains, etc. indigenous missionaries to Asia. I am only half way through the book and already know that it is causing a "revolution" in my own life. I am shaken and cannot believe what my eyes are being opened to see! I have prayed and asked God to forgive me for my shortcomings.... I have also asked Him to show me how I can simplify my life and support world missions even more than I do now. I look around my home, that God has blessed me with and see so many things that are not needed and are unnecessary! If I had never bought the $15 tart burner on my counter that I never use, how many people could I support? This is what I did last night as I scanned my home and realized how much I have that I truly don't use and do not need. My husband reminded last night as I looked upon him with tear filled eyes that God places us in our lives for a reason. What I have realized is that I could be a nurse in India and still have the same calling on my life to live on the mission field and meet the practical needs of the people I am called to serve. But, I am not! Instead I am a nurse from the US with that call on my life.... I say again, I am a nurse from the US with that call on my life. I was fortunate to be born in the most affluent country in the world. I have resources available to me that a nurse from India could not dream of having at their fingertips. Do you get it? Do you see it? As Christians in the richest country in the world we have a responsibility to those in the world that are less fortunate.
"Jesus answered him, If you would be perfect [that is, have that spiritual maturity which accompanies self-sacrificing character], go and sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; and come, be my disciple [side with my party, and follow Me]." Matthew 19:21 (Amplified version)
"But if anyone has this world's goods (resources for sustaining life) and sees his brother and fellow believer in need, yet closes his heart of compassion against him, how can the love of God live and remain in him? Little children, let us not love [merely] in theory or in speech but in deed and in truth (in practice and in sincerity)." 1 John 3:17-18 (Amplified version)
I will continue in my journey to simplify as I finish reading the book that is "revolutionizing" my life. All I ask you, as my reader to do is to think, reflect, and meditate upon your life and pray about how you can help make a difference and reach others for Jesus Christ!