MARCH 23 – SENT

 Pay Attention! I am now sending you out into the world…. (Matthew 10:16)

                When you close the door of your home behind you each morning, do you think about being sent? It’s very easy to think in those terms when you’re heading to a church meeting, or to do a mission project. Often, there will be a formal send-off for those who travel to do such “ministry work.”

                   Jesus commissions you to your mission every morning. It is your primary vocation to follow that mission from Jesus into the world each day, where He will lead you and empower you with His strength if you keep looking to Him and following. This work of the Lord is to heal the sick, raise the dead, and cast out demons. As the Holy Spirit lives in you, and works in and through you, you will do this work both literally and figuratively. This charge from Jesus – “I am sending you!” - gives you that mission. Those words also give you authority; God’s authority to go anywhere He leads, and to speak His message to any person He places in front of you. If you will follow Jesus closely, you will walk in power, and you will get to see lives change.

                  Whatever your company makes, sells, or provides as a service, remember your vocation is that you are sent by Jesus. Live your mission. Be sent!