Assignments. This word keeps appearing in random ways. So you have to ponder what is your assignment? Is it your family, your job, your hobby, your ministry, your serving, your passion. Or maybe we never really know. Maybe we’re like Mission Impossible. Each day there is a tape left for us (yes God places it in our head) that says: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves…..
If you google Mission Impossible you get….An elite covert operations unit carries out highly sensitive missions subject to official denial in the event of failure, death or capture.
Ooooh….so my mission each day as assigned by God, if I choose to accept it, is highly sensitive and if I fail, die or am captured no one will really know what mission I was on? That sounds about right.
So we get in our heads that we have a distinct mission – we may even know what it is. Particularly if you work at a church as I do … “obviously” my assignment is clear. But maybe not. Maybe our “assignment” is not a big picture thing. Maybe, just maybe, it’s the little interactions, the water cooler conversations, the conversation over the neighbors fence or over a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Maybe it’s even that text of support you send or receive from a friend. Maybe our “assignment” is to care for Gods children as he places them in front of us in both big ways and in little ways. Just a thought.
