Today's devotional is excellent. Here are some excerpts:
"The key to the missionaries' difficult task is in the hand of God, and that key is prayer, not work---in the natural realm, prayer is not practical, but absurd. We have to realize that prayer is foolishness from the commonsense point of view. From Jesus Christ's perspective, there are no nations, but only the world. How many of us pray without regard to the persons, but with regard to only one Person---Jesus Christ? No Christian has a special work to do. A Christian is called to be Jesus Christ's own, "a servant who is not greater than his master" (John 13:16)....our Lord calls us to no special work---He calls us to Himself."
If this doesn't fly in the face of many people's, many missionaries', ways of thinking...we "know" this, but do we live it? No wonder I hear so many Christians struggling and wrestling over "their call from God"...they want to KNOW what He is calling them to...it's clear, He's calling us to Himself only. When we submit to THAT call, then He can do His work in and through us. That reality is incredibly freeing once you grasp it.
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