I’d stay in the garden with Him,
‘Tho the night around me be falling.
But He bids me go
Through the voice of woe,
His voice to me is calling.
And He walks with me.
And He talks with me.
And He tells me I am His own.
And the joy we share as we tarry there.
None other has ever known.

When Mother Teresa arrived in Calcutta, India, as a nun she stayed in a convent in which she spent most of her time praying to God, studying the Word of God, and meditating on it. Nun Teresa never thought of leaving her confined territory, for she enjoyed “talking with Him, walking with Him, and sharing joy with Him.”

Uutil one day she found out orphans were roaming the street, dying from hunger outside her convent, she determined to walk out of her “garden” and to help the poor and orphans. Gradually her humanitarian work reached far and wide all around the world.

It is good to be “in the garden” with Jesus having communion with Him. But the song lyrics read, “He bids me go through the voice of woe.” We have to go and walk into this fallen and broken world to share the good news of Jesus Christ.

God doesn’t want anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). Today let’s walk out our garden and proclaim the kingdom of God, and he has promised he will be with us.