‘But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up his
voice & addressed them…’(Acts 2:14)
God
honors obedience. When Peter, filled
with the Holy Spirit, stood & delivered his sermon on the Day of Pentecost,
he launched New Testament missions. Three years earlier, he had heard the call to
missions when Jesus said to him & Andrew, ‘Follow me, & I will make you
become fishers of men’ (Mark 1:17).
Verse 18 tells us that they immediately followed.
The
call to missions is still the same today.
God calls every Christian to be on mission for Him. The Great Commission was not a command given
to just the eleven disciples who were with Jesus that day, it is a command for
all believers, in every generation. At
the heart of the Great Commission is this truth, ‘every Christian is a
missionary & every sinner is a mission field.’
The
secret of the mission that Peter had discovered was simple: availability &
obedience. We will look at the availability today & obedience next week.
Availability: When God calls us to be on
mission for Him, He never asks us about our ability, but our availability. If we go on mission & trust in our
ability to accomplish the assigned task, we will fail. We are to go where He sends us, trusting Him
to take our abilities & use them for His glory.
Our
availability should never be an issue when it comes to obeying Christ by being
on mission. When you trusted Christ for
your salvation, at that moment, you surrendered & dedicated yourself to
serve Jesus Christ throughout your entire life – in everything & through
everything, no matter the cost.
While
God calls some to a specific task or mission field, He has called each one of
us to be on mission for Him right where we are – in our community, our home, at
work, at school, where we do business, or wherever we go or in whatever we do
throughout the day.
Take some time to look at your relationship with Christ. Are you making yourself available? Are you eliminating distractions, so you can hear God clearly?
I encourage you to spend some time with Jesus with Jesus today, if you haven't already. Make yourself available to Him.
Only by His grace,
Bro. Eric
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