Counting the Cost

Little Pedro

A missionary was preaching to some Mexicans. After the service, a little boy came walking down the aisle on little fat brown legs. With serious eyes, he looked up at the missionary and said, “You ask what I would have done if I had been in the crowd when Jesus fell, carrying His Cross? Please sir, if I had been there, I would have helped him carry it!”

The missionary said, “But, Pedro, if you had helped Jesus carry his cross, the cruel Roman soldiers would have beaten your back with a whip until the blood ran down to your heels.”

With a look of courage, the little boy said, “I don't care. I would have helped him carry it just the same.”

Two weeks later, little Pedro was at the mission again. The missionary patted him on his back. Pedro winced. “Don't do that, my back is sore, my back hurts.” The missionary took the little boy into another room and looked at his back. It was covered with big bloody welts. “Who did that?” the missionary asked.

“Mother did it. She whipped me because I love Jesus. But I don't care I will always love and serve Jesus!”

Our Lamb Has Conqured Let Us Follow Him

The Moravians had learned that the secret of loving the souls of men was found in loving the Savior of men. On October 8,1732, a Dutch ship left the Copenhagen harbor bound for the Danish West Indies. On board were the two first Moravian missionaries; John Leonard Dober, a potter, and David Nitschman, a carpenter. Both were skilled speakers and ready to sell themselves into slavery to reach the slaves of the West Indies. As the ship slipped away, they lifted up a cry that would one day become the rallying call for all Moravian missionaries, "May the Lamb that was slain receive the reward of His suffering." The Moravian's passion for souls was surpassed only by their passion for the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.