February 14
Matthew 28:1-20
Have you ever experienced a time when sorrow was turned to joy? In the discovery of the resurrection of Jesus, we see the greatest transformation of emotions ever. Despair and uncertainty turned to joy and hope. The three Marys went to the tomb on Sunday to anoint a dead body, but discovered an empty tomb. An angel told them Jesus rose from the dead just as he said he would. Jesus then appeared to them and others over a forty-day period. Verse 16 moves us from the tomb outside Jerusalem to Galilee in northern Israel. There Jesus gave his disciples their post-resurrection mission. They were to go and make disciples. The small band of misfits are called to do nothing less than transform the world through disciple making. The command is audacious, but they will be able to do it because Jesus has "all authority in heaven and on earthâ and promises he will be with them "always, to the very end."
The call to go and proclaim Jesus throughout the world seems impossible, but with Jesus' power and presence the church exploded. This same power and presence is available to us. The mission of the disciples then is still the mission of disciples like us today. We are called to be disciples who make disciples. So, let us "go" and do what God has called us to do, knowing he will transform the world and replace all of the sorrow and despair with joy and love.
Father God, you have given me a mission to go and make disciples. Help me to be about this work for the rest of my life. Amen.
How can you more intentionally focus on your mission of being a disciple who makes disciples?
Have you ever experienced a time when sorrow was turned to joy? In the discovery of the resurrection of Jesus, we see the greatest transformation of emotions ever. Despair and uncertainty turned to joy and hope. The three Marys went to the tomb on Sunday to anoint a dead body, but discovered an empty tomb. An angel told them Jesus rose from the dead just as he said he would. Jesus then appeared to them and others over a forty-day period. Verse 16 moves us from the tomb outside Jerusalem to Galilee in northern Israel. There Jesus gave his disciples their post-resurrection mission. They were to go and make disciples. The small band of misfits are called to do nothing less than transform the world through disciple making. The command is audacious, but they will be able to do it because Jesus has "all authority in heaven and on earthâ and promises he will be with them "always, to the very end."
The call to go and proclaim Jesus throughout the world seems impossible, but with Jesus' power and presence the church exploded. This same power and presence is available to us. The mission of the disciples then is still the mission of disciples like us today. We are called to be disciples who make disciples. So, let us "go" and do what God has called us to do, knowing he will transform the world and replace all of the sorrow and despair with joy and love.
Father God, you have given me a mission to go and make disciples. Help me to be about this work for the rest of my life. Amen.
How can you more intentionally focus on your mission of being a disciple who makes disciples?
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