This morning I woke up to London, my two-and-a-half-going-on-twelve-year-old daughter, refusing to play with her older brother Aiden. What was her response to his pleading? From the living room I awoke to, "I can't. I'm on a mission." Then she came running into my room yelling it with determination: "Daddy, I'm on a mission, I'm on a mission!" What daddy wouldn't wake up with a smile in these moments?
Though her mission was to find some gum, our mission as believers is clear and with great reward (Matthew 28:18-20, Acts 1:8). God's mission is to draw His elect into a right relationship with Him from the ends of the earth, with kindness and grace leading us to repentance and faith. He does so not by angelic proclamation or a high-tech gospel billboard from space, but through you and I, the church. Our mission is a mission of love, sent by a loving God to win people to a loving Savior by living lives of loving obedience and laboring in love until our last breath. I've heard some people say with a profane tone, "for the love of God!", and I would say, "yeah, absolutely right!"
William Carey, the great missionary to India, once said, "Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God". I echo his exhortation but my prayer is not that I would attempt great things for God. My desire is for God to attempt great things through me. The only way this is possible is for you and I to live submitted lives to the gospel of grace, to yield to the work of the Holy Spirit in every area, and to take risks and go boldly wherever He leads us.
Can you say like London, "Daddy, I'm on a mission"?
Pilgrim
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