Lately, I’ve been meeting missionaries with beautiful work with underserved communities and what strikes me hard is how astonished I am when they say “this work is really young, BUT I’ve been here for over 10 years.”
What it tells me is that fruit-bearing is a long, slow process.
If Jesus lived 30 years in anonymity towards his last three years of impact, then perhaps, I ought to care less about how my time here appears to others and care more about how how present I am in my time here with others today— trusting God for His fruit in the future, even I can’t see it yet.
