Missionary Part II

God has called you to be on a mission on this planet. There is no getting around that fact. And Jesus is our model of a life that was always on undistracted mission.

People were always coming to Jesus saying and doing things that could have distracted him from his mission. But he was always about that mission. Jesus said that he came to earth to seek and save the lost. Giving his life away meant that on a daily basis he would consider others more important that himself (Phil 2) and on the ultimate level when he died on the cross.

This instance of Jesus serving others comes from the Gospel of John and is just prior to his death. Knowing what was in front of him it may have been easy to have been distracted from his mission, but Jesus was not.

From John 13::
3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. 5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, Lord, do you wash my feet? 7 Jesus answered him, What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand. 8 Peter said to him, You shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I do not wash you, you have no share with me. 9 Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head! 10 Jesus said to him, The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you. 11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, Not all of you are clean. 12 When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, Do you understand what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

God has a mission for your life. You are God's missionary in the exact time and place where you are. Your school, job, family, friends, neighborhood and city are all places that God has put you to be on mission. Ask God to show you what it is and give you the strength to rise to it.