MISSIONS IN PAKISTAN

I know that nobody reads my blog, and I haven't posted anything in a long time, so why would you right? The truth is I'm so not used to having a blog that I forgot it was here! I'm a stroke survivor, so we tend to forget things, a lot of things!
Anyway I wanted to write about my friend Naheed. She's a single woman who heard the Lord's call to missions, so she went. She just went. I wonder how many stay home instead, where it's safe, comfortable, nothing risky. She lives in Pakistan where we talk on Skype and she tells me almost everyday about more Christians that were killed by the Muslims that hate them. The Christians have the lowest paying jobs, if they have jobs. Their houses and churches get burned down all the time. They can't get visas to leave Pakistan because the Muslims run the embassy and they only let Muslims travel out of the country. I was talking to her today about the evils of radical Islam, but she cautioned me that we can't talk about that because if someone overheard the conversation, she could be killed! That thought NEVER even occurred to me, living here in America, where we are so free! I'm not writing this as a bash Muslim piece, just as a WOW what a different kind of life kind of piece. We take SO much for granted here in the United States as American Christians! Yet there are so many of our beloved brothers and sisters living in danger every day of their lives! Naheed walks from village to village to spread the Gospel message and she, like Paul in the New Testament becomes all things for all people so that she might save some, if you know what I mean. She eats what they eat, respects their customs, becomes like them without compromising her faith in Jesus Christ. She is Jesus to the people around her and His love and His light shine out of her like a spotlight in the blackest night. She challenges me to be better at shining my light for Christ, and to be brave about sharing my faith. And it should challenge ALL of us here in this country who claim Christ as our Savior and Lord! We know NOTHING, really, of TRUE persecution, but we might. Will we stand for our Lord THEN if we barely stand for Him NOW? And trust me, my questions are aimed at myself as well! We need to WAKE UP out of our stupor and GO AFTER IT for our KING! Let's fulfill the GREAT COMMISSION to the best of our ability so that our brothers and sisters who are being killed aren't dying in vain!
Blessings!
Michelle