The Weakness of God’s Giants
Missio Christi – Prayer – Luke 11:1a – Part 3
In Scripture we find that Jesus tangibly connects His presence in our lives to our being on mission with Him. Matthew 28:19-20 gives His mandate to take the Gospel to the whole world:
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.[1]
The context is that we go, baptize, teach, preach the Gospel, and within that context, He is with us always. Living life on mission means we experience a profound, practical sense of “Christ with us”. This isn’t a cop-out of Christian jargon, but the tangible, practical, manifest, discernable presence of Christ in our lives! The life on mission is promised the experience of Christ with us.
The challenges and obstacles that we face will always make us desperate for more of “Christ with us”. The more we live life on mission the more we want Jesus with us because of the enormity of the task at hand, and the issues of the day. The more we live life on mission, the more we see our own frailty and weakness, which is why this quote encourages me:
All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on God being with them. ~ Hudson Taylor [2]
The promise of the Great Commission is that if we live life on mission, Christ will be with us. In Christ, weak men are enabled to do great things for the glory of God.
How does the tangible presence of Christ knock your socks off?
[1] Matthew 28:19-20
[2] Quoted in J. Oswald Sanders, Christ Indwelling and Enthroned, 61.
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