Go! Go! Go!

Thursday, August 6, 2009

The Bible gives us a mandate for reaching out to encircle the globe with the message of God’s love. Out of Matthew and Acts we read, “All nations” and “to the ends of the earth” there is a call to GO. We have already talked about PRAYING and GIVING but we must also be GOING. I know that all of us will not go abroad and that is all right. The needs are great all around us and I never want to minimize the importance and the value of GOING into our neighborhoods, our workplaces, etc. But I would like to challenge us today to pray and to contemplate the possibility that God would have us to travel to another part of the world for two weeks, one month, one year or for a lifetime to share the love of Christ with the people there. If nothing else it can serve to give us a greater burden to pray, or to give more.

The needs in our world are great. We really do have so much, even when it seems that we have “little”, in comparison to most of the world around us. Go again to some websites of organizations that are serving the needs of people around the world. (www.worldhope.org ; www.worldvision.org ; www.samaritanspurse.org) This time, instead of thinking about the financial needs, think and pray about the need for people to GO and serve there. Be open to the possibility that God would take you into one of those areas some day to serve the people there. When a trip is being planned on the District to go and serve in another part of the world, pray about the possibility that God would have you to go.

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 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20

Prayer: Lord, Continue to form my heart with a willing spirit that would say, “Here am I, send me.” Amen