On Earth sometimes we feel as though we may no fit in, or what we are doing is not where we feel like we are suppose to be. So we ask our self is this my MISSION?
I really enjoy seeing life as seasons, and during these seasons we tend to grow and fall and get back up again and again. We fall 7 times and get back up 8. We listen to lies and feel trapped or we rejoice with happiness. With this idea of season you ask how the heck does this do with missions.
As season change, I think sometimes our position in our mission changes. We are all called to different things, different people, and different areas, but our mission as a whole remains the same: TO LOVE.
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.' -Matthew 22:37-39
I am evolved in a ministry called Young Life. Young Life (YL) is a ministry that is an outreach for high school students who are lost. We meet them were they are, just like Jesus does. YL has lots of different parts to it now, where we reach out to college students, middle school students, single mothers, military families, kids with disabilities, and internationally. It is a very large ministry, but GOD IS so so much BIGGER.
I think sometimes we are called to a ministry but get caught up in the titles of things or the Earthly drama and all the muck that gets us stuck and we forget what the core of the ministry is.
It doesn't matter where, who, how, or why we are called to what God wants us to be doing, we must be doing it ALL WITH LOVE. Love that is selfless.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
-1 Corinthians 13: 4-7
What's your mission?