“You can bury the workman, but the work will go on”
David Livingstone was a young boy in Glasgow, living his peaceful life when he had a burden for the Souls that is being lost. A medical doctor in Scotland, he left behind his life of comfort and decided to take up the purpose God had for his life. He left his home and moved to the place known as the ‘dark continent’. He moved to Africa, and he spend his life there carrying on the work of God. A life lived for God, a life given for the greater purpose.
He taught us that there’s nothing really stopping us from doing the work of the Lord. He faced a lot of persecution but yet nothing could stop the drive Livingstone had. He walked into the darkest of places, a land stricken with deadly diseases, as people were dying, communities suffering with various diseases, he was a man who was bought up in the other end of the world, nothing was in his favour, everything was against him. Against all odds, David pushed through because he knew the calling that was upon his life. And nothing could stop him.
When David Livingstone passed away, there arose a disputed between two nations who wanted his body. Scotland claimed it as he was a Scottish man by birth, and the Africa claimed to as he lived his life for Africa, and when they couldn’t come to a conclusion, they decided that they would take his heart out, and they would bury his heart in Africa and they buried his body in Scotland. Because he was a Scottish man with a heart for Africa. And as they were carrying his body to Scotland, there was a large procession and as the went and when people asked them what they were doing, they would reply, “we are carrying a very very very big man”. That’s the legacy David Livingstone left behind.
The impact David had in Africa is great, a continent known as the dark continent with no literacy, finance or any development with very few Christians. Now it has more than 200 million Christians. A land once known as the dark continent, now is a nation for the Lord. The workmen was buried but the work still goes on. There are thousands of men and women of God who is changing Africa now, because one man chose to go against all odds and change a nation. A nation in darkness now has light, an illiterate land is producing great men, a land once shut off from the world is now producing people in the international eye. Now that’s the kind of legacy you want t leave behind. The kind of work that makes the world a better place is divinely appointed.
A sacrificed life and a redeemed continent!