“The mission field is wherever you are called to be. I believe our days are numbered, so it doesn’t matter what country I’m in.”
Those are the words of 24-year-old friend David Grove, who came home recently for a brief visit in the U.S. before returning to missionary work in Kampala, Uganda.
I recall the days of my youth, when I thought all "serious" Christians must serve as full-time ministers or missionaries. Today I understand how childish and restricting that idea was. When we are surrendered fully to God, when we grasp the magnitude of His grace in our own lives, we have a desire to share the good news with everyone. Our "mission field" then becomes wherever God has placed us: family home, school, workplace.
I pray that I will be recognized as a child of God, set apart from those who do not yet know Him, and that I will be willing, even eager, to "introduce" Him when God presents opportunity. In the meantime, I give thanks for Christian missionaries who respond to the great commission, leaving familiar, comfortable surroundings to bring the gospel to all corners of the world.
Isaiah 61:1
"The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners."
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