Tend My Lambs…
John 21:15-17 So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus *said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He *said to him, “Tend My lambs.”
I believe we are ALL called to ministry. But I also believe we’ve been scammed by our enemy to think we could never qualify or accomplish the task or be the one called to the work involved.
He *said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He *said to him, “Shepherd My sheep.”
Jesus asks… “Simon, son of John… (Mary… Jimmy… Joey… Nancy…) Do you love Me?”
He *said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Tend My sheep.
“Simon, son of John… (your name goes here…) Do you love Me?”
Let the stuttering begin… our mouths can’t keep up with all the reasons why this can’t possibly directed at me.
“No No I can’t, but I will pray for the one you send…”
“Not me, but I’ll help you send the one who should go.”
“Surely someone else could do it better!”
To be sure, we have been duped. But… and I hate to be the bearer of bad news… we are wrong to think Jesus isn’t sending us!!
We have been lulled into lethargy with the idea that someone else will be sent, that as long as we are supporting those that go with prayer and finances we are excused from the work ministry. We are chosen to stay home and be about all the other business that “somebody” has to do!
WE don’t have time…
WE don’t have the skills…
WE don’t have the call…
WE don’t have the missionary desire…
But Jesus says… “Do you love Me?”… Ummmm… How do YOU answer His question?
We have everything we need do what He asks us to do. The only question left is will we GO and DO?
Go Where? To the side of the one God brings before you.
Do what? Take their hand and walk our talk.
My friends there is no mystery to being God’s missionary in this life which is full, pressed down, shaken and overflowing with opportunities to minister.
Jesus says, “Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.” Matthew 25:40 NASB
Do you love Jesus? Let’s get going and doing…
P.S… and please… don’t forget to minister to… yourself!
**All Scripture quoted comes from the “Bible Gateway” app and is the NASB version of the Bible