You look around and you see people pushing through the crowd or speaking to a vendor at a stand trying to bargain for the best price. You are hit with smells of funky fish and people who don’t know what deodorant is….oh wait is that me. You hear a language you do not understand, or maybe you do, but not what you are used to. You hear children laughing and running around and the sounds of busy streets with lots of honking, breaking, and shouting.
Most people when you say mission field get a picture similar to this, or maybe it’s in the middle of the African bush living in a mud hut surrounded by nothing but dirt and open space. No matter what it is I doubt too many people think of a cubicle.
Something I have realized in the last week is that my mission field is the office during this season. This shouldn’t come as a surprise really; I mean when I look back I realize that the office I worked in before I left for the race was my mission field during that season. God had me there to encourage people, to make friends, and just be. Much in the same way He has me encouraging the people I work with in various ways. When God puts us somewhere it doesn’t necessarily have to be to reach the lost. Sometimes as Christians we need a little love and encouragement just like the people we are trying to reach. I am in a supporting role right now, and it’s pretty awesome.
I have seen God moving and working so much and it has been great getting to know the people around me and hearing their story. Hearing where God has brought them from, where He is taking them, and even what He is doing right now. To see God’s heart and how His children are falling into step with Him.
Just goes to show that the “mission field” is where you are. You don’t have to drop what you are doing, go around the world and live in another country to be a missionary. You are a missionary right where you are. You can where a suite, drive a nice car, and work in an office every day and still be a missionary. It’s not just safari pants and chacos that are missionary attire. Your mission field is the place God has called you to, even when it is a cubicle in a small town in the middle of Georgia. Or where ever you happen to be living.
So go out and love on the people God places in your path every day. Know that you are there for a reason and that you are just as much a missionary as the ones that are traveling around the world. It’s an awesome place to be and you get to spread the light and love of Christ to people that sometimes get forgotten. I challenge you to go make conversation and be intentional with someone you work with that you haven’t really talked too much. It just might surprise you what God will do in that one short, or long, conversation. I love you guys and pray that God continues to move in your lives and that He is blessing you this week.
