I have been assuming that the power and the motive behind taking risks for the cause of God is not heroism,
or the lust for adventure,
or the courage of self-reliance,
or the need to earn God's good will,
but rather faith in the all-providing, all-ruling, all-satisfying Son of God, Jesus Christ.
The strength to risk losing face for the sake of Christ is the faith that God's love will lift up your face in the end and vindicate your cause....
In this way risk reflects God's value, not our valor...
Every loss we risk in order to make much of Christ, God promises to restore a thousandfold with his all-satisfying fellowship.
John Piper
