"If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' tell him, 'The
Lord needs it.'" (Luke 19:31)
It’s easy to have a fear of not
having enough. When we look at our limited resources and so many needs, it’s
hard to see it from an eternal perspective. Where we see a shortage, Jesus sees
the resources necessary for His will to be accomplished.
In this verse, Jesus
is giving instructions to the disciples on how to find the colt that would
carry Him into Jerusalem
for the Passover. In Jesus’ ministry, the resources followed the ministry, not
the other way around. So He asked His disciples to have faith. Imagine what it
would have been like for these God-fearing disciples to go into town and take a
donkey that didn’t belong to them. But their obedience showed that they trusted
the Savior to provide the resources for the ministry.
When Jesus calls us to serve,
we need to be willing to trust Him for the resources. If we require all the
elements to be in place before we obey, we will say no to so many opportunities
that Jesus wants us to pursue. If we choose to step out in faith, we may look
foolish and risky, but Jesus will be glorified as He accomplishes things
through us with His resources.
“Therefore
I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about
your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the
body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow
or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are
you not much more valuable than they? ... But seek first his kingdom and his
righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do
not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has
enough trouble of its own.”
(Matthew 6:25-26, 33-34)
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"Missions
is primarily intentional cross-cultural evangelism beyond the immediate
outreach of the local church. Its aim is to bring the unreached to saving faith
in Jesus Christ, to disciple them and to incorporate them into the fellowship
of an existing or newly-planted local assembly of believers." --Dr.
Frank Allen, missionary and mission pastor
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