It is all in the Lord's time

In 1733 two Moravian missionaries were sent from Herrnhut (Saxony) to Greenland. 

Matthew Stach and Frederick Bohnisch, grave-diggers by profession, suffered from disease, the cold and starvation in Greenland. Finally after twenty-seven years they witnessed their first Inuit converts, Kajarak and his family. 

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How amazing. It took twenty-seven years for their suffering -  mixed with the Gospel to bring one family from darkness to light - from death to life.

This puts me in mind of Psalm 40:1 - "I waited patiently for the LORD; And He inclined to me and heard my cry."

Matthew Stach and Frederick Bosnisch - gravediggers and Moravian heroes are teaching us about persistence. 

Moravian Food Blessing

* Old Woman in Prayer, known as ‘Prayer without end’

By Nicolaes Maes

Current Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Dated to 1656

Moravian Table Blessing

Come, Lord Jesus, our guest to be

And bless these gifts

Bestowed by Thee,

And bless our loved ones everywhere,

And keep them in Your loving care. 
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*Old woman in prayer, known as ‘Prayer without end’. An old woman is praying with folded hands while sitting at a table laid with bread, cheese, a jug, a bowl and a fish on a plate. To the right a cat pulls the tablecloth. On the wall a bunch of keys are hanging. In a niche in the same wall stand a funnel and an hourglass.