My Mission, Should I Accept It?

I can't stand it! I can't stand it anymore!

It's the thing that you complain about most and absolutely gets your blood boiling. When you see it happening, strong emotions well up within you that are difficult to control. This thing has the power to wreck you, take you to your knees and beg God to do something! Mercy is out the window. Pride evaporates. Reputation is worthless.

This is your mission.

For Moses, it was slavery. Growing up in a powerful wealthy household couldn't quench it.

"One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them in their hard labor." Exodus 2:11. Pharaoh built a thriving economy on the backs of slave labor. People with no rights and little hope for the future were forced to construct monuments to mere mortals exemplifying the ultimate in irony. Monuments designed to honor the achievements of men, stand to this day as a testimony of what evil will do when unleashed within the hearts of unredeemed people.

But, then it happened. Moses had to do something! 

"He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand." Exodus 2:11-12.  When was the last time you witnessed a beating? I don't mean a scripted, staged, beautifully enhanced movie scene. I am asking you, if you have ever experienced a real-life beating? It's something we never forget and an affirmation that broken people live in a broken world.  Our mission is revealed when we painstakingly take the time to sort through our emotions and find it.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to find where your pain threshold meets God's resources and allow it to become your mission to  change the broken world. God has the fuel source to keep your mission white-hot. The greater question is how much longer can you remain in the crowd when God is challenging you to do something?

(For further reading and inspiration read Holy Discontent: Fueling the Fire that Ignites Personal Vision. Bill Hybels. Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 2007.)