After
this (Challenging His followers to find those who were willing to pay the costs
of following Him), He named seventy-two people, and sent them out in pairs,
each to a place He planned to go. He sent them, saying, “There is a great
harvest ready, but so few to work. Pray the Master will produce workers from
and for that work. You’ll be like little sheep in a wolfpack. Don’t try to
prepare, and don’t get side-tracked. Just go where I send you and say, “I bring
God’s prosperity to this place.” (Luke 10:1-5)
Can you still follow directions? Sometimes,
as people grow older and gain experience, their way becomes fixed. Sometimes,
they even begin to think they are too far along to change, so any instruction
requiring change may be dismissed as unreasonable and therefore, wrong.
Jesus didn’t ask these seventy-two followers
to tell Him where they should go nor what they should do, nor how they should
do it. He told them, in some detail, about every aspect of the work that was
important to accomplish His objective for the work that would be done. He knew
what each person needed in their own life, and what those whom they would meet
needed as well. You don’t know either of those answers. Your job description
still reads, “follow Jesus” even when you lead others.
Be sure that today, and every day, you find
your place in the work by listening for the Lord’s voice.
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