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Passion includes sorrow

This past week, a friend asked me a question about Apostle Paul where he spoke in Romans 9 how he wished he could be seperated from Christ for the salvation of his own race (v3). The question asked was, "Why would Paul even think about giving his own life, fully knowing that would not be enough to pay the price to save the Jews?" Our conversation at that time centered more around the sorrow, the grief, and the passion that Paul felt for his own people, the Jews. Rightly so, yet something deeper and even more simple comes to mind now as I've had time to chew on these verses this past week. At the time of Pauls letters, there was already someone who died to pay the price for the lost. In fact, it hit me like a ton of bricks that my lot as I have come to realize more so, is not merely to sorrow or grieve over the lost communities and coutries around me, such like Paul's grief for his coutrymen (v2), but that sorrow... lead to action! As Paul progresses in his letter, in Rom 10, he poses one specific questions in response to his own emotional grief, "How then shall they (lost) call.. believe.. hear... unless they (saved) are sent?" His statement, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news.." reminds me of the task at hand. Instead of the wallowing in the emotional crisis of how lost indeed the lost are, how can I shed light on the problem unless I am actively telling others of Jesus and him crucified? As a believer and disciple of His, for what other purpose have I been sent.. do I live.. do I grieve?