Endure Hardships

This excerpt is taken from the biography of a missionary to China in the early 1900s:

"The trials of everyday life were a test in themselves. The bitter winds of winter gave way to the steady, gray rain of the spring. His bare quarters seemed permanently damp. Now and then he was simply tired of the dirt. It was not just the mud and the result of the Lisu spitting everywhere; having his bedding infected with lice and bedbugs irritated him. And after several months of a rice diet, his whole body craved a change of food--something sweet, or some butter and cheese.
His legs were still swollen from earlier travels and before getting off his mattress in the morning he usually had to bind them to relieve the varicose ulcers.
After some of his journeys on foot around the mountain villages every bone seemed to ache, every muscle felt stiff. Who was to know, anyway, if he lay in bed half the day? His diary reveals his struggles:
January 1, 1916. Must watch against getting up to late, these intensily cold mornings. The indwelling Christ is my successful weapon against all sin these days--Praise Him!"

"They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented--of whom the world was not worthy" --Heb 11: 37-38

Let us follow in the example of this man who was a missionary to the Lisu tribes in China and the example of these suffering saints in Hebrews. "Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in His steps" --1Pet 2:21
"Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking..." --1 Pet 4:1


Side note:
Consider the obstacles in the way of this man getting up early in the morning to seek God...and yet he endured hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus! Lets quit being sissys, whining about how hard it is to get up in the morning and how we aren't morning people...excuses! "endure hardships as a good soldier of Christ"!
"My voice you shall hear in the morning, in the morning I will direct it to You and I will look up" --Psalm 5:3