Missions In Brief Summary
The Call of God
World Missions was a theme that was in some ways not a concept to the Christian
in the early eighteen hundreds. Ideologies like Calvinism and Evolution-of-the-
Races have been the cork in the bottle of spiritual drink this lost world is perishing
of thirst for. However, Christianity throughout the centuries has never had warrant
to cease form praising her Saviour for His foresight and perfect providence. As in
all noble endeavors one person stands alone as the forerunner; The Wright brothers
for air travel, Ford for personal transportation, Martin Luther King for equality, to
name a few. Many men got a hold of something that gripped them, and thus
changed the world. It has been proven that if you can perform or produce
something that alone others could not, or if you can upgrade and improve
something, and make it quicker or more efficient, with the right marketing and
connections, one could find them self very influential, and not to mention affluent.
One idea, once it has defeated world criticism, has suddenly become a world leader.
Many ideas ran strong for a time and later foiled, yet some ideas, and manipulations
of physics have become some of the greatest assets to our globe. Individuals who
have taken extra steps, laid awake extra hours, diffracting the reticule, have gone
through the ages as heroes and saints. Missions today is an endeavor often feared by
those seeking Gods will, and misunderstood by those who would criticize the
visionary.
The Deity and passion of Jesus that created us in the garden, longed and dreamed
and envisioned the day he would be with his Church, his children and creation,
liberated from sin and in Heaven forever. The Wright brothers’ lofty dreams, Edison’
s bright idea, Alexander Bell’s calling, Ford’s focus, Benjamin Franklin’s electric zeal
and Louis Pasteur's poise, all represent an individual and a dream. However, if one
could somehow conduct a tally and list all the aspirations, goals and invasions ever
held dear over the span of time and transpose them into text and later release these
letters into the sky, one would liken this sight to that of a snow-globe. A panorama
of each letter falling so sad and softly; letters that once represented the dearest of
dreams, the most refined of resolves and unabashed articulations of ambition,
would fall lower and lower, deeper and deeper, and eventually lose identity in the
flurry of so many a fading letter. The loss of identity now transforms these once
prized paragraphs and noble notes into mere falling flakes. In a world of inventors,
visionaries, lovers and dreamers, were do you fall in? Do you have a dream, or
merely a falling flake? Fight the good fight that you may obtain the prize, “… it
doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that when he shall appear, we
shall be like him: for we shall see him as he is”. Only God can create man, become
man, save man, and make us like Himself, that we might see Him for who He is, the
greatest dreamer of all time, and the joy of our salvation.
God has a mission for the World, namely world evangelism. However, God has
limited himself to a dependency of human instrumentality, Paul states, “For after
that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by
the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe”. God could just as easily
have the rocks and winds proclaim His majesty, but God wanted his most prized
creation to be His express ambassadors in the proclamation of His doctrine of
grace, written by his righteousness, validated by His sinlessness, funded by His
blood. Yes, the Gospel is the zeal and strategy of God, “The Lord is not slack
concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long suffering to us-
ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance”.
The Lord of the Harvest is in the ministry of recruiting men and women to serve in
the fields of His labors. When God calls and separates a man into the ministry this
is a calling that the Bible terms; “without repentance”, this meaning what God has
called and confirmed, He has no intention to change or compromise. When an
individual says that they feel God’s call on their life toward a particular ministry,
they are affirming that they have received a decree from heaven, sealed with the
Holy Spirit’s own mint mark which separates them into the Lord’s work. As one
engages this call, they begin to feel (as it were) a sixth sense and overwhelming
peace and confidence toward the contentment to fulfill the royal call.
Therefore, the calling of God is the greatest opportunity availed to the Christian,
and the responsibility of a lifetime.
Missions in Summary
