We are all missionaries

A missionary is sent by God to a people who (may or may not) bless their stay among them.

Is there opposition in your home, your neighborhood, your workplace, your church? Often as a missionary your worst enemies are in the tribe you serve. Yet, they remain for a God-allowed purpose.

God can indwell a missionary to love & enjoy the work they do for the Lord. But it is often the persecution & opposition that keeps one close to God while doing the work, for you may not be able to survive & remain to do the work otherwise.

A missionary is often used, abused & taken advantage of...do you feel that way even as a domestic missionary in your own home, your job, your church?

The amount of opposition (persecution) often appears more than you can bear. But, God sees & allows you to be sifted, so you will know without Him you could not stay & endure.

A missionary (and you are one too, where ever you are planted), will not have it easy. If it is easy, you don’t need God.

The work may be fun & easy, but forces outside you will try to interfere with your joy & happiness in working for the Lord.

Missionaries often want to retire & live a monastery hermit life, to get out of the opposition’s hateful attacks. But if they did, they would be as “salt that has lost its saltiness”, no longer of value.

Thought for Today:

Did you know every saved person is a Missionary? You, too! (If you are saved). Did you know that God may not remove that angry person from your life? Because you need God more than ever to survive...without that “thorn in your side”, life would be so good, you would live the good life. But you can’t serve two masters, all the good the world has to offer & God.

We are all to remain humble missionairies who need God. Opposition/ persecution/”thorns in your side” have a God allowed sifting purpose, to keep you humble, in need of God, so He will always be part of your life & you will Not shut Him out.

Remember God loves that thorn as much as He loves you. Paul asked God to remove the thorn in his side (those who were making his work for the Lord difficult with their interferance) & God said, “No.” Remember, too, that Paul himself had previously been a thorn to other Christians.

Thorns remain thorns until/unless they humble before the Lord like Paul did. If you have a true passion for Christ, a thorn will reveal you truly are willing to die for the cause of Christ, if the thorn persists.