I am at the end of my race; I have completed what God wanted for me in this season. The question I’m asking myself now is what’s next?
How can I go home after the race and feel like I’m fulfilling my purpose and my gospel duty?
This year I’ve worked in orphanages, battered women’s homes, and sex trafficking organizations.
I’ve taught English, I’ve evangelized on the streets and on churches. I’ve shared the gospel under a bridge because it was illegal to share Christ in the country I was in.
I’ve hiked to Hindu temples to pray and handed out bibles in Muslim villages.
How can I possibly go back to America and still make a difference?
The Lord answered me.
Our duty as Christians doesn’t depend on the country we are in, the job we work at, or the community that we are a part of.
When I was asking the Lord how to fulfill my purpose at home, he reminded me of this scripture.
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God.
What does God require of us?
Act justly.
Love mercy.
Walk humbly with your God.
These three things are how we live out our purpose on earth.
No matter where we are, what we are doing, these three things are possible.
Act justly.
Speak up for what is right, and absolutely speak out when something is wrong.
Use what you have been given, money or time, to help those who have less of either.
Stand up for those who are oppressed, stand with those who cant stand for themselves.
When you CAN do something, DO something.
“I always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about it…. then I realized I was somebody. “
Love mercy.
Love mercy contains the Hebrew word ‘hesed’ meaning loving-kindness.
Show kindness and love to all you come in contact with.
Treat everyone as a beloved child of the King because they are.
Simply smile at the people you pass everyday.
Genuinely ask others how they are doing, and if you can pray for them.
Set aside time for those that need a friend or just someone to talk to.
Treat all people as equals.
“Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside someone else’s skin. Its the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy for you.”
Walk humbly with your God.
Never think that you are done learning from the Lord.
Walk humbly in His will for your life.
Stop to ask Him what He has for you this day, and ask for His help.
Give Him the glory for anything and everything.
Grow in you closeness to Christ – becoming more like Him.
Consider Him in everything you do, life is with Him completely, or not at all.
So this is what is required of us, who follow Christ.
Act justly.
Love mercy.
Walk humbly with our God.
“It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.”
“Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.” –Roland Allen
