It's In the Name
Pixabay, Public Domain It’s all about the Shepherd. He guides us. The direction He takes us leads to transforming us into people who look like Him. He has a mission in mind that becomes a goal in this transformation. When Jesus was about to return to His Father after His resurrection, He commissioned His followers with these words: “ …go and make disciples of all nations... ” (Matthew 28:19). The scope of the task was somewhat new to the disciples, but the message and the mission were not. Followers of Jesus had been engaged in spreading the Gospel from the beginning of His ministry (i.e. Matthew 10). In fact, people of God having an impact for God on the unbelievers around them had been God’s mission as far back as Abraham. God formed a nation of witnesses, of believers, whose words and actions were designed to showcase Him before the nations. “ He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake ” (Psalm 23:3) The paths of righteousness that He leads us on are meant to bri...