| "Missionary vs. Mission
Field" |
This is the weekly email devotional of WhoUWith? Ministries
(2004)
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"Everyone is either a missionary, or a
mission field." -Alan Duncan, missionary in South Africa
About
15 years ago, I felt God start calling me to full-time ministry. I was more
than a little scared. Many of us have had been at church when the visiting
missionary comes with a slide presentation of a tribe in the jungle and a hut
he would call their "church". I just knew that if I went into ministry God was
going to send me somewhere near the equator and, other than an occasional
postcard, I would never know civilization again! Can you sense the
anxiety?
A strange thing happen on the way to the equator. I realized
that whether I'm overseas, in a jungle, or on Main St. USA, I'm a missionary
for Christ. And whether I'm in full-time vocational ministry, or if I'm
flipping burgers at McDonald's, I'm called to the same purpose. For any of us
who have asked Christ to be the Lord of our heart and lives, we have become an
ambassador for God Almighty.
What does God’s Word
say?:
But when the Holy Spirit comes to you, you will receive power.
You will be my witnesses-in Jerusalem, in all of Judea, in Samaria, and in
every part of the world." Acts 1:8
I am proud of
the Good News, because it is the power God uses to save everyone who
believes-to save the Jews first, and also to save those who are not Jews.
Romans 1:16
The question for you today is what are
you? Are you a missionary? You have come to the point of surrendering your
heart and life to Christ. Or, are you a mission field? You are still holding on
to things in this world that you hope will one day make you happy (fame, money,
power, sex, self-actualization, etc.) and are not willing to give everything
over to Christ.
It is my prayer that if you are a "missionary", you will
start expressing your love and commitment to Christ through an obedient and
victorious life! And if you are a "mission field", you will revisit the
sacrifice of Christ for you. Christ paid a debt (our sins) He did not owe, for
a debt (our sins) we could not pay! He died for you, why can't you live for
Him?
Just a thought!
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