the point of it all.
“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. . . . Worship, therefore, is the fuel and goal in missions.”
–from Let the Nations Be Glad by John Piper
There is a truth ringing in my ears and with each day it gets louder and louder. The truth is that God Almighty is worthy of our worship, and there are places in the world where He is not being worshiped.
And so in response, we fill our minds and our hearts with the Gospel, save our money, buy a plane ticket and go to a strange place where no one speaks our language.
Why? Because God is not worshiped there.
John Piper wrote a book called Don’t Waste Your Life. In the first chapter, if not the first page Piper urges us to realize that we only have one life-that’s it.
“You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath.”
-Psalm 39: 5
Visually, Psalm 39:5 makes me think of a little girl blowing a kiss to her dad. And just like a kiss that is tossed into the wind as soon as it is made, life’s final breath comes before we even realize what we are.
And what are we?
“the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”
-Genesis 2:7
What does that mean? It means that the only thing that separates us from the ground we are walking on is the breath of life that God breathed into our lungs.
If that doesn’t give you an enormous view of our God, then I urge you to take a day off from your busy life and go lay on the ground and ponder Genesis 2:7.
When I think about where I came from (dust) and how long I’ll be here (seconds) I realize that there is no room for fear in the church. We’re all going to die, people. Let’s do it big. Let’s go to the hard places. Let’s not just say we love- let’s lose our lives for the sake of true love. Let’s take the Gospel to the ends of the world!
I love the chandler quote;). It’s so true! We were made for risk. Risk that glorifies the One who knows all and is in all…every risk brings us into deeper dependance on Him and challenges how much we trust Him. Thanks for the encouragement!
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