Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Matthew 28:19-20
A mission is something you’re sent to do. The question is: what’s your mission?
Yuri and Irina finished Bible School and were off to the ends of the earth—literally, the ends of the earth. For years the couple made their icy home in the arctic wilderness of Northern Siberia. They shared the message of Jesus with the hearty souls of this land where there were more reindeer than people. Yuri would regularly visit homes by snowmobile, planting home church after home church.
The day came when the little churches were self-supporting, so they sent Yuri and Irina off to another country to share about Jesus there. The Siberian churches provide financial support for the couple to work in this new place—where government restrictions make for an environment that’s even more difficult to live under than the arctic cold.
Irina sums up the purpose of their lives in two sentences. She says: “All our life is mission. Sometimes double mission.” When Jesus said, “Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” they went. When He said, “Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you” they did just that. When Jesus assured them, “And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age,” they believed it (Matthew 28:19-20).
It’s easy to think that Jesus’s words were just for exceptional people like Yuri and Irina. But they weren’t. If you follow Jesus, your mission isn’t something you have to sign up for—it’s already yours. Not sure what it is right now? Ask Him to make that clear to you. Then listen. He’ll answer.
