March 3, 2015
Nothing is more compelling than someone with a clear-cut mission, motivated by compassion. “Jesus was going through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.’ ” (Matthew 9.35-38)
It is abundantly clear that Jesus was a man with a message. Front and center was a message about the kingdom of God. But, this was no philosophical principle; it was demonstrated by powerful and compassionate actions: healings and miracles. The point of it all was to declare and demonstrate the coming of a new reality, which could be experienced in part in this present age. A burden for this message, and compassion for all people, was powerful and compelling. And, He sought to increase and multiply the mission by challenging His disciples to see the opportunity and need, and partner in the work.
When we most fully know and experience the reality and hope of the kingdom, we are deeply motivated to share it with others. The power of the kingdom that pervades in part today gives rise to compassionate acts of help and healing. The partial experience of wholeness moves us to administer it to the broken around us. The more we know and experience, the more we care and share.
A powerful message gives rise to compassionate mission. I pray that we each see and experience the message more clearly, and that it give rise to compelling and compassionate mission.
Steve
©Steve Taylor, 2015
Be sure to also visit http://thetruthrevolution.wordpress.com/
Amazon ebook & print devotional -http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FQ1Q9GW
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It is abundantly clear that Jesus was a man with a message. Front and center was a message about the kingdom of God. But, this was no philosophical principle; it was demonstrated by powerful and compassionate actions: healings and miracles. The point of it all was to declare and demonstrate the coming of a new reality, which could be experienced in part in this present age. A burden for this message, and compassion for all people, was powerful and compelling. And, He sought to increase and multiply the mission by challenging His disciples to see the opportunity and need, and partner in the work.
When we most fully know and experience the reality and hope of the kingdom, we are deeply motivated to share it with others. The power of the kingdom that pervades in part today gives rise to compassionate acts of help and healing. The partial experience of wholeness moves us to administer it to the broken around us. The more we know and experience, the more we care and share.
A powerful message gives rise to compassionate mission. I pray that we each see and experience the message more clearly, and that it give rise to compelling and compassionate mission.
Steve
©Steve Taylor, 2015
Be sure to also visit http://thetruthrevolution.wordpress.com/
Amazon ebook & print devotional -http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FQ1Q9GW
paperback print copy of book — https://www.createspace.com/4500045
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