Photo credit: ishkaminaFor this Monday's ministry video I've decided to give you a glimpse of a mission I am intimately familiar with. My family and I have been with WorldVenture for almost twenty years, living and serving with them in four countries on three continents during these past two decades. Here is a taste of some of the opportunities available with our organization.
--WorldVenture
Life is filled with uncertainties. People let us down, situations spin out of control, and the personal tragedies of living in a fallen world can sometimes crush us. There is only one sure thing we can all count on: our God's love. As we turn to Him we can be assured, even when all hope seems lost, that He will fail us not.
--1000 Generations - Fail Us Not
God's greatest gift to the world is Christ, but the motivation for that blessing is what today's video celebrates: the unmatchable, unquenchable love that can be funneled through us from Heaven to those around us.
--Group 1 Crew - Love Is A Beautiful Thing
One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down.
Yet though we recognize the honor bestowed upon us, there is no place for pride, for the follower of Christ must shoulder his cross and a cross is an object of shame and a symbol of rejection.
Before God and the angels it is a great honor to follow Christ, but before men it is not so. The Christ the world pretends now to honor was once rejected and crucified by that same world. The great saint is honored only after he is dead. Rarely is he known as a saint while he lives. The plaudits of the world come too late, when he can no longer hear them; and perhaps it is better that way. Not many are selfless enough to endure honor without injury to their souls.
In those early Galilean days Christ's followers heard His call, forsook the old life, attached themselves to Him, began to obey His teachings and joined themselves to His band of disciples. This total commitment was their confirmation of faith. Nothing less would do.
And it is not different today. He calls us to leave the old life and to begin the new. There must never be any vacuum, never any place of neutrality where the world cannot identify us. Peter warming himself at the world's fire and trying to seem unconcerned is an example of the kind of halfway discipleship too many are satisfied with. The martyr leaping up in the arena, demanding to be thrown to the lions along with his suffering brethren, is an example of the only kind of dedication that God approves.
--from Man - The Dwelling Place of God by A. W. Tozer
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