You are a missionary because of the mission you are on right here, right now to make a difference in the world around you for the Kingdom of God.
This may mean befriending someone that you see on the street.
Sharing a meal with someone, just to show them that they are valued.
Being positive when everyone around you is negative.
Encouraging when the people around you are only discouraging.
Showing or speaking love to those that are hurting around you.
You know that God loves you. You don't have to earn it. He just does. Live as one set free from the lie that you must perform to be accepted. Choose to believe that you are free by the blood of Christ. This makes the difference in the Christ-ian between those that are fighting to gain the whole world.
Ultimately pointing everyone around you to the all-satisfying Savior that loves and accepts us right where we are. He desires to see us transformed by his life in us, but to begin with, know that anyone can come to Him right now.
What can you do right now, right here, in your life, family, school, work, play, chores, coming, going, moving, sitting, talking, waiting, looking, sleeping to follow the mission that Christ has given you?
What daily choices are you making to either follow Christ or follow your own desires?
What do you hate? What makes you clench your fist? What breaks your heart?
And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
(Mark 8:34-38 ESV)
(rightnow.org)
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