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Another reason people do not obey God’s call and His command for world-wide missions is the excuse of being successful. The excuse goes like this; “But I am successful were I am, my ministry is blessed or my business is booming.” But what people fail to realize is that missions is not just for people who cannot succeed in any thing else. God like any good employer is not looking for the frustrated, the failure or the unemployable.
But God is looking for those who have proven themselves. He often sends the best and the brightest of men. God calls men like Barnabas to missions. Remember he was a cultured Christian, a Levite who owned an estate on the Island of Cyprus. In this day anyone who owned land on Cyprus was rich and influential. Yet God called him and sent him on that first missionary journey.
He calls men with great minds like William Carey, Adronium Judson and Robert Morrison who are able to translate the Bible from one language to another. He calls wealthy men like Borden of Yale, although born with a silver spoon in his mouth and all the advantages of life-he left it all to serve God as a missionary. But he also calls converted criminals like Saul of Tarsus.
The fact is a persons present success whether it be in ministry or business is no guarantee that they are in the center of God’s will. Remember Moses was pre-eminently blessed when he struck the rock but he was completely out of the will of God.
If God has called you to the mission field do not use the excuse, “But I am successful, my ministry, my business is booming” because that is no guarantee that you are doing what God wants you to do!
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