This is the burden which came in the year that King Ahaz died.
Isaiah 14:28
Recommended Reading: Isaiah 14:28-32
Mary Jones, a poor Welsh farm girl, had only one burning desire: to own a Bible in her own language. No Bible existed in her home, and the nearest one was a couple of miles away. For years she saved money by doing small jobs. Finally, at the age of sixteen, she walked more than twenty miles across the Welsh countryside to buy a Bible from the Rev. Thomas Charles. He later helped start the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1804—an organization that went on to distribute millions of Bibles around the world.1 Mary’s passion for a Bible helped ignite Charles’ passion for a ministry distributing Bibles.
The prophet Isaiah sometimes referred to his messages as “burdens.” The Hebrew word means something that is heavy and must be carried and delivered. We should have a burden for the world, especially for the distribution and scattering of the message of the Gospel. Ask God to give you a renewed burden for the world. Ask Him to show you people who need your prayers for their salvation, and let Him show you what you can do today.
Christians who have little or no burden for the lost are not attuned to the heart of God.
Woodrow Kroll
- William Canton, A History of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Volume 1 (London: John Murray, 1904), 465-466.
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