This is the Year of Missions at WJTL. Listen for daily segments on WJTL, designed to expand our awareness of how God is working redemptively in the world and how we can be on mission with God to serve as salt and light in the world until the return of Jesus Christ. If you miss our daily features on the radio, you can find them at my webpage this year, so spread the word.
In the Year of Missions, here is today’s Update from Mission Network News.
2010 marks the fifth year since Sudan’s North and South signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. While the accord ended civil war, unrest and tensions remain high. In Southern Sudan, an estimated 10 percent of children are orphans, left to fend for themselves on the streets.
Kids Alive is working in Sudan, helping more than 300 children through Children’s Homes, Schools, and Care Centers. One of their key goals is to reach these children with the Good News of Jesus Christ. They also meet the physical care for children by providing medical care and an education for them.
We can pray for the outreach of Kids Alive and the church in Sudan, that their witness for Christ might be a calming influence in a tense environment.
You can learn more about how God is working in the world through followers of Jesus at mnnonline.org.
Today’s Mission Statement focuses on the attitude of Christ.
Philippians 2:5 and 6 says, “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped.”
Jesus took on the very nature of a servant. Oftentimes, positions of authority in the world are seen as positions of power and influence. There are certain rights and privileges enjoyed by a nation’s leader or a company’s C.E.O. Jesus has supreme authority, and yet, when He came to earth, He surrendered His rights of royalty in exchange for a cross. Imagine! The King of Kings and Lord of Lords, worthy of our highest praise and honor, descending to the lowest, most humiliating form of death. His love paved the way for this to happen. His leadership was demonstrated through service, sacrifice, and humility. This is the attitude of Jesus that we are called to follow. We may have certain rights or privileges in a certain position of influence. Yet, if Christ is our leader, we are called to use our positions of influence as an opportunity to serve others rather than to demand that others serve us. In our various activities, the attitude of Christ moves us away from self-centered ambition to God-centered and others-focused ambition.
That’s today’s Mission Statement for representing Jesus in the world today.
Prophetic Passage of the day, Matthew 5, verse 5
The words of Jesus, "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."
