Nih'na Kulu Murasala

Nih'na kulu murasala ---> "We are all missionaries" in Arabic.

"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.”
-Acts 17: 24-27 (NIV)

God really showed me the truth of this verse while I was in Toronto. I was really convicted of my failure to live missionally in my daily life. I find it so much easier to pay money to travel hundreds or thousands of miles to share the Gospel with complete strangers, but I fail to see my daily life as an opportunity to share God’s love with others. 2 Corinthians 5: 20 tells us that we are Christ’s ambassadors. I am the worst ambassador ever! I am supposed to live each day as a representative of Christ- that is definitely sobering. I should live each day knowing that my surroundings are my mission field! We are all missionaries- not just those who serve in other countries. Some are called to international missions, but we are ALL called to be ambassadors right where we are. This passage in Acts tells us that God has placed us all somewhere for a purpose. Do we realize that? I don’t live like I know that. I waste my time while I’m at college. It is so easy to get caught up in planning for the future, but that leads me to waste the present! God has called me to CNU for a purpose. I may not know specifically what purpose that is- but God does.