Lottie Moon stood 4 feet, 3 inches tall and weighed roughly 50 pounds when she died at age 72. Her frail, weak, nearly starved frame had endured 39 years on the mission field in China.

Her life was not perfect, but her life was powerful. She was a living sacrifice to God.

Lottie lived and ministered to women in remote villages in China giving her life to share the message of Christ. Her letters to her friends and family express her inability to understand why more wasn’t being done to reach these people for Christ.

She couldn’t understand why Christians in America could live in wealth refusing to give more money for missions while people in China had no one to tell them about Christ.

“It fills one with sorrow to see these people so earnest in their worship of false gods… with no one to tell them of a better way. Then, to remember the wealth hoarded in Christian coffers! The money we lavish on fine dresses and costly living!”

“One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls?”

She couldn’t understand why Christians in America could ignore the call of God to reach the people in remote parts of the world for Christ.

“The needs of these people press upon my soul, and I cannot be silent. It is grievous to think of these human souls going down to death without even one opportunity of hearing the name of Jesus.”

She couldn’t understand why more Christians won’t present their lives as living sacrifices to God. Will you present your life as a living sacrifice?

*The factual information and quotes in this blog entry comes from Daniel Akin’s Five Who Changed the World.