In my last blog,my unwelcomed pleasure, I used some strong words depicting how much I was against missions as a personal idea. They were all true. I really did abhor the idea of going to other areas in the world myself to share God's love. Originally the call to a missions was met as an unwelcomed idea to me. I thought I could pick and choose how I was to follow Christ. I believed that scriptures like Mathew 28:19 "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit," and Acts 1:8 "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth,” applied to missionaries, not me. Recently my views on this have shifted. How can I, a mere human, a slave to Christ, choose which commands God gave us through the Word to follow and which ones I didn't have to? I submit to you that no slave can turn to his master and say, "no, I don't want to."
"I may not know exactly where I'm going, but I know who is going with me." – David Platt, Follow Me. This quote from the first session in the series Follow Me has stuck with me. It doesn't matter where I go or what I do, so long as I go with Christ. The wheres and whats are just details. A life with Jesus is the story. So I abandon all I am to follow Him. I am excited that I get to go, that God has entrusted me with this task. I eagerly await the chance to do His will.
This is where I am in life. I don't have details about what the future may hold. All I know is I will be hand in hand with God, and that's more than enough. Will you join me on this journey of total abandonment to Christ?
