Dr. Livingstone, I presume? a famous greeting of Henry Morton Stanley upon locating David Livingstone in Africa. That’s about all that most of us know about him.
However, here is one of his quotes that exposes the heart of the man:
He is the greatest master I have ever known. If there’s anyone greater, I do not know him. Jesus Christ is the only master supremely worth serving. He’s the only ideal that never loses his inspiration. He’s the only friend whose friendship meets every demand. He’s the only savior who can save the uttermost. We go forth in his name, in his power, and his spirit to serve him.
Life for him wasn’t just about exploration in the harshest of environments but about the One who saved him from his sins.
Paul makes a statement about his different environments in spreading the gospel:
2 Corinthians 11:23-27
Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.
Salvation is free, but it didn’t come to you without a cost.
Give it some thought.
Gary