Luke 10

Luke 10:1-12

If you have ever played sports you know what it is like to go through a learning curve at your respective sport and position. For myself, I specifically felt this way playing football in high school. I played cornerback on defense, and this was a newer position to me. Every day I remember focusing as I backpedaled, opening up to the quarterback, getting depth to cover the receiver on offense and trying to contest without committing a penalty. It could be like this as a forward in soccer or a pitcher in baseball, or any other sport as well. Due to the nature of wanting to compete and perform well I focused solely on what I was doing at times during a practice or game, that I forgot to think about my teammates, how I can help them and encourage them out on the field. This is important too, after all football is a team sport. 

Faith and mission can be the same way. Once we start following Jesus we begin a whole new life. Literally, we are made new in Christ, and begin our eternity in communion with our savior. It can be easy to focus on our own day to day or week to week patterns. Am I abiding daily? Am I consistently pursuing the growth of disciples? Am I consistently going out into the harvest, into the mission field? We ask ourselves these questions internally to determine how our faith life is going and being lived out. I do not say this to stir a works based faith, but it is good to check in on the health of our abiding and mission. But in Luke 10 we see that we are not just to concern ourselves with our own lives and mission, but also to pray for the entire mission field scattered across the globe. We are to care for our teammates, our global teammates, and how God sends us into mission together yet scattered. 

Verse 2 calls us to pray earnestly for God to send other laborers into the harvest. Set your eyes on the big picture for a moment. Pull yourself out of your context and think about the brokenness of the world, the extensive need of a savior near and far. Maybe a specific location or people comes to your mind. Maybe it's another campus or city with Resonate Network. But think about that location or people. Ask God here and now to send laborers into the harvest. 

This can be such a sweet and refreshing practice. Not only is it sweet in the moment to pray about the Kingdom coming to earth through laborers entering the harvest, but it is even more sweet when we hear of God moving in these places. When God’s glory is made known we get to rejoice. We also get to keep praying until the work of sharing Christ and seeing lost souls saved to Christ is complete. 

Let us expand our site beyond ourselves, always pray for laborers to enter the harvest, and pray for our Kingdom teammates as we make Christ known.