18 Jesus
came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority
in heaven and on earth. 19 Therefore,
go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach
these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be
sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
Matthew 28: 18-20 (NLT)
This
is the Great Commission. I never really knew what it was called until
my Youth Pastor started calling it that, but may I just say that it's
a really fitting name. The definition of "commission" is
"an instruction, command, or duty given to a person or group of
people". So this instruction that we've been given is
pretty awesome. So awesome that its official title is the GREAT
Commission. I mean seriously. It must be pretty important that God
would call it the Great Commission, and not just the Commission. But
this task was put upon us by God! I mean... GOD told us to do
something. The King of the Universe, our CREATOR told us to go out
and make disciples! Don't you think that we should do that?
Now,
you must be sitting there and wondering... what? Like, what is she
talking about? Or you're thinking... oh. THIS again. I've heard this
story at least a thousand times. It's all that my church talks about.
Ugggghhhhh. (Well, it must be really important if you've heard it at
least a thousand times!) Well, for those of you who don't know what
this is (or you already know), I'm gonna tell you what I know it to
be. It's God's command for us. It's what our life is all about.
Everyone in the world wonders what the point of life is. Well ladies
and gentlemen, here you go. We are to go out and make disciples. That
sounds a bit weird, but that's what it's about. Now, in the Bible
days Jesus had disciples. Or another way to call them is His
followers. They followed Him everywhere. They did what He did and
followed His every instruction. They were His disciples. And that's
what we are. We're Jesus' disciples. And our job is to go tell
everyone about Him and make them disciples. Because being a disciple
is being with Jesus. Since Jesus is God, we're with God. He is the
King and we're servants. Just think about how in the Renaissance
times how kings would treat their servants. Quite horribly to be
honest. But God... He cares for us. He loves us so much. And for a
King to care about a servant as much as God cares about us, that's
just amazing. Everyday we can be sure that God is on our side and
that no matter what we go through, He will always be there for us.
Just the comfort and the love and the peace that comes from being
with God, it's just amazing. And to think that there are people out
there that are hurting and feel like they have no one to turn to...
that just hurts me. They have no idea that God loves them. That they
are not a mistake and that they are not loved. Because feeling
unloved and alone is horrible. There are millions upon millions of
people in this world who believe all of the lies that the devil
whispers into their ear on a daily basis. I hate that. I don't like
just sitting by and watching people slowly crumble into nothing but
pain and agony, wanting nothing but to find a way out of life. I
don't know about you, but I want nothing more than to save them. Life
may be short, but I don't want to watch them live it the way the
world says they should. This is what Jesus told us to do. He knows
that His people are hurting, and He wants us to save them. I want to
walk into Heaven and see all of the people that I saved instead of
looking down into hell and seeing all of the people I could have
saved, but was too timid to do so.
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