In ending this day, I want to thank the Creator of the Heavenlies for allowing me to play a small role in something majestic: His mission. Now, I actually deleted three words from the end of that last sentence-“on Capitol Hill”-because I realized it doesn’t matter where that mission is happening. The fact I am a part of God’s work in a sandstone building in a swamp on the east coast of the United States of America makes it no more glamorous or important than the pastor raising money on the internet to buy homeless children haircuts in California, or the missionary friend in Senegal sharing the love and message of Christ with Africans, or the high school student who is strategically placed among a community for summer break, or the learning disabled teacher who tenderly calms an autistic child in class, or the Christian Air Force Lieutenant who was strategically placed on a four month assignment to share the love and message of Jesus during late night poker, or the graduate student who is being strategically placed in the University of London for the sole glory of God. Lord help me never make it about where, but what, and more importantly who. Jesus, bleed me of missional pride! Cultivate a heart of gratitude simply for mission, and never type.
Folks, in the quietness of the moment, soak in the realization that we have the opportunity to make much of Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isacc, and Jacob. Think of those who handled the torch you now bear: rub your fingers over the worn wood, let the scent of the oil waft through your nostrils, follow the dancing flames with your eyes, and consider the heaviness of the object that was passed to you at birth. Like those who have gone before you, you are glorious, you have been given a glory by the Most High King to use for His mission on earth, a glory that is feared by the Enemy and being hunted by his hounds of destruction.
Your Creator has called you, my dear friend, to represent Him, His Love, and His Way to the world around you. Realize that God is making his appeal for reconciliation to the world in which He has placed you, to the people to which He has entrusted you. Friends, God desires to use you the way you are in the world in which you exist to restore one individual to the way in which he or she was originally intended to be: a whole person in eternal relationship with his or her Creator.
Father, thank you for choosing to use this leaky, grimy vessel to accomplish your mission in this dark, hurting world.
Be His,
-jeremy
