Mission Impossible

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.  Chuck Swindoll

He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others-not because He has favorites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition.  C.S. Lewis

Some of you may be too young to remember the original TV series Mission Impossible.  The series was about a group of IMF (Impossible Mission Force) secret agents who in the beginning of each episode were given top secret missions that were tape recorded and following the listening of the tape the machine would give a warning and then it would self-destruct. 

I loved watching that show.  The tape would come on and it would say, “Your mission if you choose to accept is…” and then it would tell the agent what he was supposed to do.  I never figured out what would happen if you didn’t accept the mission.

One of the things that came to mind when I thought about this long ago TV series was that each of us as Christians have been given a mission if we choose to accept it. We are free to choose not to accept it as that is the way God planned it.  We don’t have to accept the mission of showing other people who He is.  The thing is if we choose not to accept Him we are lost. The mission God sets before us is not impossible.  We can do “anything” through His strength. 

I think too many times we see God as having weaknesses like us.  If we see Him with weaknesses we will never reach the potential of the amazing things we can do through His power.  There is nothing too big or too small for God.  It’s all small to the One who created us.  If we can ever wrap our arms around the magnificence of Our God, there is no end to what we can accomplish on His behalf here on earth. 

Your mission if you choose to accept is to show others the amazing God who created us and to point them in the direction they need to go to make their way to Him.  This message won’t self-destruct but time is running out.  Choose to accept and you will see His power at work in your life.        

Prayer for the Day: Heavenly Father, You have assigned each of us a mission on earth. Our mission is to show others Your amazing love and to lead others to Your heavenly home.  Help me to understand the enormity of this mission and to accept wholeheartedly the mission set before me.  I can do anything through your power and might and I praise You for giving me the strength to step out in faith on Your behalf.

Scripture: For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,  that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.  Ephesians 3:14-19