When people ask me why I’m spending my summer in a country
1,500 miles away from home, I honestly don’t have an answer. Maybe I’m just
crazy or maybe it’s the part of me that loves to travel and see new things,
regardless on July 5th I set out on a month long journey to Central
America.
The first day of every trip with SOS, the team sits down and
is asked one question.
“Why are you here?”
People scramble to come up with answers, but the most common
one is;
“The Lord called me to come here”
The Lord does call people to go places, I have no doubt
about that, but the Lord calls every believer to spread his name throughout the
world. So no matter where you go or what you do, as long as you are spreading
Christ you are doing what the Lord calls you to do.
When I am asked on July 5th, why I am in Central
America, I can honestly say I have no idea, but the Lord has called each one of
us to spread His love and wherever I go I will be doing that. Whether I’m in
the mountains of Honduras or the beaches of Charleston, South Carolina, my
calling has been set by my God. The great Commission is not something we should
merely consider, but a command. Christ’s name will be spread among the nations
when ordinary people who have been transformed by the power of Christ decide to
take the Great Commission seriously. We
have become so complacent as a country to be happy with where we are, when in
reality we should be uncomfortable when we sit at home and pass by unsaved
people without sharing the Hope we have in our hearts, with them.
So let us be the ones to take the Commission of the Lord
seriously and live lives that proclaim the goodness of Christ wherever the Lord
may take us, at home or abroad.
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