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Warmed Up
I recently read a biography on the life of Sadhu Sundar Singh, the Indian Christian Missionary who was born in 1889 and is believed to have died in the foothills of the Himalayas in 1929. There was an incident in his life that impressed me. It was a time when falling snow and bitter cold endangered the lives of Sadhu and his Tibetan companion as they crossed a Himalayan mountain pass. Fighting the “sleep of death” they stumbled over a man buried in snow who was half dead. The Tibetan refused to stop and help and passed on. The compassionate Sadhu shouldered the burden and, through his struggling, warmed up the unconscious man as well as himself. Sad to say, before reaching the village they found the Tibetan alone and frozen to death. In seeking to save his own life, he had lost it. The missionary’s sacrifice led to the saving of his own life and that of another.
The Bible tells us, “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it” (Matthew 16:25). Don’t forget that whatever sacrifice we make for the Lord and on behalf of others, will always have a blessing for this life as well as an eternal consequence and reward.
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