Friday, June 8, 2012

Commissioned by God


Matt. 28: 16 – 20:  Commissioned by the Holy Trinity

By baptism in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, we are ordained into fellowship and service of the most Holy Trinity!

It is the Triune God who sends us: Go!
Who commissions us:  Teach!
Who assures us: I will be with you always!
Who reveals in and through Jesus Christ: “To me has been given all authority in heaven and on earth.”

We too are called to "go" to where Jesus will meet us to be cleansed. We too are called to worship. We too are directed to the place where we will meet the living Christ.  We too are called to share, in Christ, communion with the Holy Trinity, where Jesus meets his people, and shares with us the peace that is the essence of whom God is, through our relationship with Christ.
 
No human person can make anyone follow Jesus. What the disciples had is the word from the living Christ that continues beckoning them to follow. What the disciples had is the word from the living Christ that beckons others to follow. His promise is that "I am with you always, to the end of time”.

The Word keeps beckoning the worshipful to discipleship. And as we follow, as we go, as we worship, Jesus will prove his word to be true:  through the Holy Spirit he will be with us always - bringing us safely  to the Father.

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