A Missionarys Motivation

This morning during personal study I had some powerful insight and revelation as to motivation in missionary work... Motivation is a driving force that is behind anything, and it is directly motivated to anything we choose to do.

Now to tell you about the revelation I received this morning, I was conducting a study on Heavenly Father and his influence in our lives. During the process I traveled to 1 Samuel 17:47 "And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hands", for context I read verses 32-47, there in I found the motivation of a missionary:
"32 And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

 33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

 34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

 35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.

 36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.

 37 David said moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with thee."

In these verses David goes from his flock and saves the sheep form the bear and the lion, how does he save them? By the power of God on High. As missionaries we go forth and preach saving Gods sheep by his power. I imagined in my study, the pain and anguish that a soul that has been ripped from the fold of god into the world, the pain and suffering that he or she may experience. This thought is what motivates us as missionaries to go and rescue the souls that are suffering and in pain. Because we know how they can be healed... By Christ and the power of God, that's what delivers us...

This message of Christ has the power to deliver us from the painful wounds we acquire in life. This can mend the painful wounds that are inflicted to us by the Lion and the Bear, it can bring us back to the fold of Christ. But it can only do this if we let the power of the spirit work with in us, and LISTEN to his counsel. We as missionaries go about, not because its required of us, or because we gain growth because of the service we render, or even because of the blessings we receive, its because we understand and know the pain that comes for mortality, from Spiritual and Physical death... We also know the relief and peace that comes from access to the suffering of Christ. We desire ALL to partake of this joy, we desire to save those souls who hunger and want for rescue. This is our desire and our motivation.

We cannot deliver ourselves, but thought the Power of God and the Shepard of man(Christ) we can be saved from the Lion and Bear of this world. Let us all lean upon he who has given his love, and let us listen to the counsel of him on high...