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The Key To The Missionary
Matthew 28:18-19
“All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations.”
Key Passages
He does not say the heathen will be lost if we do not go; He simply says - “Go ye therefore and teach all nations.”
If I want to know the universal sovereignty of Christ, I must know him for myself, and how to get alone with Him; I must take time to worship the Being Whose Name I bear.
“Come unto Me” - that is the place to meet Jesus. Are you weary and heavy laden? How many missionaries are! We banish those words of the universal Sovereign of the world to the threshold of an after-meeting; they are the words of Jesus to His disciples.
“Go ye therefore...” Go simply means live. Acts 1:8 is the description how to go. Jesus did not say – Go into Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, but, “Ye shall be witnesses unto Me” in all these places. He undertakes to establish the goings.
“If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you...” - that is the way to keep going in our personal lives. Where we are placed is a matter of indifference; God engineers the goings.
“None of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself...” That is how we keep going till we're gone.
My Own Thoughts
As usual, Oswald just has a way of putting these things into words. I might as well have copied the whole chapter today. “Go simply means live”... what a truth to live by. Wherever we are at, at any given moment is where we are a missionary for God. That is where we are to reflect Him. “Come unto Me”... this is said for us now. We are promised rest now, not just in the future. The rest of God is here for us now, if we will come to Him. Just like any good relationship, it is based upon spending time together. You have to soak in the presence and the very essence of what God is like. How do we know what God is like? We look at Jesus... Jesus says “If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you”... we must soak in His word and abide in it. Live in it. Take as much in as we can. This is a terrible weakness for me. I tend to go to other books first. I can read books about the Bible all day. I can read commentaries and devotionals, and theology or whatever else about the Bible, whenever. But I struggle immensely to simply come to the very Word of God and abide in it. I am a child of our culture for sure. I want the instant gratification of having someone do the hard work for me instead of digging and and finding the truth myself.
Dear Father, I want to abide in you. I want your word to saturate me. Give me a thirst for your presence and your word Lord.
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