Friday April 19, 2024
Mark 16:15
“Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.”
To the whole creation!”—thus His orders read.
And all He had was eleven men. And He gave these orders at a time when He was about to leave them.
Strange!
Of course, He did not leave either His friends or His work. Did He not say: “And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world”? On the very first page of mission history is written: “. . . the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed.”
He has not gone; He has only become invisible. He is working with His friends. Indeed, now as never before, for He has been given all power in heaven and on earth.
To these first friends of Jesus His last orders were not a burdensome command but a joyful proclamation of the Lord’s will. The great commission was to them a divine promise, and they obeyed it in childlike confidence. Never had they seen their great Lord as great and glorious as now when they were doing His work.
How does it affect us when our missionary obligations are called to our attention?
To many people the word “mission” conveys the idea of a multitude of demands, issuing, as a rule, in one thing above all else: money.
When this is true of the friends of Jesus, it is an occasion of poignant grief to Him. I am certain that Jesus would desire to sit down among His working friends and speak with them about the glorious gift which His missionary enterprise is, in order that they might rejoice in the missionary cause, the cause for which He died and for which He now lives.
“Most wondrous is of all on earth
The kingdom Jesus founded.
Its glory, peace and precious worth
No tongue has fully sounded.”
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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