Missio Dei 12

July 2, 2009

In these posts I am seeking to understand the mission of God in the world and asking God to clarify for us what it means to live this mission in a daily sacred rhythm of life.

The mission is God’s. It is only our mission in the sense that we are commissioned by God to engage the world as he does. Moses, for example, was on the mission of God to soften the heart of Pharaoh toward God and his people. Our sending into the world is his mission. If we possess it selfishly it ceases to be his mission. We strike the rock in our own strength and it yields nothing.

God is at work, his mission of having all people have the right heart toward him through his son, is also our daily engagement. When we program it or institutionalize it, it becomes ours to manage, to handle. God’s mission is always his mission. It never ceased to be his mission even when he gave us the responsibility to take it on as our mission also. It is in his name. If it is not it is not his mission but only ours, stubble and hay are plenty.

Peter in dealing with Cornelius understood that the mission he is on is God’s mission. Look at what he says to him: “You prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God” (Acts 10:31). And “God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him” (34-35).  All this was happening to Cornelius before Peter showed up. God was at work. Peter was brought by God into that work.

How then do we engage this truth daily in the local and ordinary hustle and bustle of life? We live with open eyes to see where God’s mission is going on. We jump on the opportunity where we see it going on. If we don’ recognize it, it’s not because it’s not going on, but because there is a veil over our eyes.

Prayer: So open our eyes, dear Lord, that we may see glimpses of the Missio Dei in the lives of others. Give us the will and stoke the desire in us to engage in it as we see it. Amen. Christ, have mercy.

Posted by georges boujakly | Filed Under Missio Dei, Missional, Missional Order 

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