Becoming a missionary

We all have our own perspective and views when it comes to missions, (some more uninformed than others) but none of us can deny that we as children of God who call ourselves sons and daughters of the most high all share a common responsibility to share the good news with others no matter where we might find ourselves, whether it be at school, at the mall, at work or at church (especially at church!!). Some think that one needs to go study or do a ten day course to become a missionary, or like most Westerners I have come across who have the idea that coming to Africa will make of them a missionary and get the shock of their life to find out that we are  not that undeveloped as the world portrays! But to get to my point, the Biblical truth is that when we come to know God and when we become adopted in His family and receive salvation through Christ we AUTOMATICLY become missionaries!! We all receive the mandate given by Christ to go into all the earth and make disciples (Matthew 28). Yet the sad fact is that that is not what most of us are doing. We all have been put into different fields of ministry, some in another country and others right in their very own home. The point is, we aren’t called to be lawyers, doctors, engineers, computer technicians or business consultants, we as children of God are first and foremost called to be missionaries! Now some of you might stop me and say “hang on, are you saying that we all are to go into the deepest part of the Amazon and live off slugs and gill weed?” no that is not what I am saying. What I am trying to get across is that sometimes children of God chase and pursue their dreams selfishly and make that their number one priority instead of making God’s will number one priority. Yes it’s okay to be a lawyer or a doctor, God is the one who chooses to bless us with these careers but it is not your REAL job!!Your earthly career is just a cover for your TRUE job!!Get it?? Think of Charlie’s Angels or James Bond. One moment they would be trained lawyers and the next they would be professional musicians, but those Jobs were just a cover to accomplish their true mission whatever it may be. It is the same with us. Wherever we find ourselves…. that is the mission field. I have heard a lot of Christians complaining about their work situations, I was one of them!! But we need to stop and ask ourselves that maybe God wants to use us to lead these people to Him or minister to them with our lives and our actions. You don’t light a lamp and hide it underneath a bucket, remember? We are the light and we have a responsibility to shine it wherever we go, but it is absolutely vital that we always remain plugged into the source and it gives me pleasure to say His name: JESUS CHRIST!!!