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 PrintableVersion Forsaking all for ChristA biography of Henry MartynProphet to IslamFORSAKING ALL FOR CHRIST If you have at least six years left to live and want to serve Jesus wholeheartedly, read this biography! If you are happy living a comfortable Christian life and you would rather not be challenged, don’t read it! Henry Martyn, 19th-century missionary to the Muslims in Persia said, ‘Let me burn out for God’. He meant it and he did it. He died at 31 achieving in six years what most of us don’t glimpse in our lifetime. He has left us an example, not of a perfect man, but of what God can do with a very imperfect man who takes him seriously. Henry’s secrets? 1. Absolutely no excuses. To ill health he proclaimed, ‘If God has work for me to do, I cannot die’. To a broken heart he responded, ‘With Thee, O my God, there is no disappointment; I shall never have to regret that I love Thee too well’. 2. Absolute confidence in Scripture. This made him ‘ever conscious of the tread of Christless feet on the wide path to eternal damnation’. The reality of Muslims in darkness spurred him on when the going was tough. 3. Absolute dependency on the Lord. When dealing with the Muslims he loved, he notes, ‘I never felt so strongly that I can do nothing. All my clear arguments are useless; unless the Lord stretches out his hand, I speak to stones’. Opposition and problems never caused Henry to despair of anything but himself, and only increased his trustful dependence in the Spirit of God. A short, easy read and possibly the most helpful epilogue I have ever read. Be prepared for the Lord to use this book to make you think again... Telda Peskett, © Evangelicals Now - August 2008 |
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