I am not called to be a 9 to 5 missionary. My ministry doesn’t begin when I enter a new
village and it doesn’t end when I leave. I am a Christian 24/7, there are no breaks from what Christ has called
me to. Every day my prayer should be for
divine appointments, opportunities to proclaim Christ and encourage anyone I
come in contact with, even on my “off” days.
Since I left Texas on October 5th, I have taken
for granted that I was on the race and that I would have eleven months to get
to know and pour into my squad mates. I
believed a lie. Christ has not promised
me that I won’t be handed a plane ticket home in the morning, much less that I
would even wake up tomorrow; and last night He called me out on it as I tried
to cope with the recent news that a squad mate would be leaving this morning.
a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”- yet you do not know
what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are just a vapor that appears
for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead
you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows
the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
but today I want to live to the fullest. I don’t want to wait “til tomorrow” to love my
teammates and I don’t want to wait until we “start at our next ministry
location” to look for opportunities to proclaim Christ. I don’t want to waste a
second in loving my God, and showing that love to the people around me.
