This week is missions week and of course I'm stoked about it because well it is a week emphasizing missions. Great speakers and everything, different I guess you could call them activities that go on, it's just going to be a good time. However there is always this repeating occurrence that happens with so many students. They get so hyped about missions and then by the next week or a couple of weeks down the road the hype is what it is, just hype. Now don't get me wrong I love it when people get enthusiastic about missions, but when people are just clinging onto the idea of something, doesn't sit well with me.
I guess it is because this is such a pivotal point in ministry to the world that I am slightly tired of the bull. People who are figuring out their paths in mission work is another story, but people who sign up just to see their name on the paper seems a bit too redundant in retrospect.
Maybe I just want to see workers come out of this week even if it doesn't mean they commit THIS WEEK, but eventually. Or maybe I'm being over-passionate in which case I cannot apologize. It doesn't matter where these workers fit, senders, intercessors, go-ers, it's all really the same to me, they are all a part of something global and responsive to the need.
Well I'm getting off my proverbial soapbox. I'm just expressing that I hope people actually feel what needs to be done throughout the world. I hope they hold onto that feeling and they carry it out into whatever they do in life. I hope they do it for the glory of God.
All to God.
Someone recently sent me a message on my FB stating how they were proud that I have stayed cross-cultural missions focused and have continued on that path because they've seen and heard so many people say that that's what they were called to, started down that path and then just kind of stopped. So the past 2 days I've been thinking about it a lot and its soooo true. Oddly enough, when I was at camp and God had been working on me through the Holy Spirit for a while and I knew missions was where I was meant to be, I came forward and stated that that's what I was going to do and I can remember 7 other people up there with me. I can remember some of their faces and statements vividly but the 3 that I though would truly follow that calling are not following that at all. Emilie is correct, it's not a "high" it's something we are told to do. Ohh how your desires for comfort hinder God's will; the true comfort comes later : )
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