Why waste your lives as missionaries?

People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted."

– Nate Saint (missionary, who with Jim Elliot and 3 fellow workers, lost their lives in  Equador in 1956 at the hands of people they were trying to reach with the Gospel).