Mark 3:13-15- “He climbed a mountain and invited those he wanted with him. They climbed together. He settled on twelve, and designated them apostles. The plan was that they would be with him, and he would send them out to proclaim the Word and give them authority to banish demons.”

It is God who chooses His people. He chose us before the foundations of the world- with a purpose. He delivered us with a direction and destiny in His mind. He alone has an exclusive claim on our life. At the “end of the day,” His plan and purpose is all that matters. God is in an endeavor to reconcile the whole world to Him and we are His special envoys born to complete this cosmic plan. This plan originated in God and was orchestrated through the sacrificial sending out of His Son. Christ came to a hostile world to accomplish what is close to God’s heart.

He has not chosen us to sit pretty in a public stadium. Our primary purpose is not decorating a chair or commanding respect in a denominational decoration. We are His special envoys to proclaim His life saving message that chases Satan out of the chest of all who are kept in darkness.

Jesus was the first missionary to planet earth. Mark says that “He climbed a mountain.” Surely, He climbed Mount Golgotha and He is inviting us to climb with Him. We must be carrying our cross as well in order to fulfill His plan. Those who climbed, He designated them. He anointed them and empowered them as well. He has a three fold plan:

• Present- We must be available to Jesus.
• Proclaim- We have to “live out” His Message and proclaim it to others.
• Power- His power is not for our status or selfish ends, but it is to help the “needy.”

The “churches” in our times are slowly drifting to a three point ABC agenda of:

• Attendance
• Building
• Cash

The “mega-churches” are paving the area for comfortable parking. They will entertain and enthrall the multitudes with perfected music and amusements. They build stadiums and seats to satisfy all. Now many are saying, no problem, if you are finding it inconvenient to have fellowship due to other pre-occupations; you can watch us in your bedroom through your television or internet. We have the money to buy it all.

This is the corporate thinking of the conglomerate world: big “numbers,” big buildings, big cash. This does not have anything to do with the business for which Jesus came.

The cosmic vision of God was incarnated in Jesus during the virgin birth. Christ was helpless and vulnerable. Jesus entered the realm of the world as a tiny baby. He entered all the complexities of this sinful world, through an “unplanned” pregnancy of a teenaged girl. He did not have anything “comfortable and big” to offer except that He carried all the mountainous inequities and intrusions of all who had lived and were yet to live.

We need to wake up and wonder what we are making out of “God’s plan.” The Great Command and the Great Commission have reduced to a “Club” to entertain and engage people. The so-called “Christian activities” do not have Christ or His Kingdom or His Glory in them.

The “Babel thinking” of security and prominence has replaced our biblical foundations. “Let us reach heaven on our own” and make a name for us and “let us build it so that we will not be scattered.” This predominates the evil mind of the sinful man.

Can God truly be presiding, where you only preside and decide? You run your agenda in the veneer of God’s name. The vision and mission you propagate are pure hallucinations of a subtle mind for name and fame. The projects you run are for power and position.

We have lost direction. We need to repent and return to this revelation that Job received -after all his mind blowing and heart breaking sufferings.

Job 42:1 -2- “Job answered GOD: "I’m convinced: You can do anything and

everything. Nothing and no one can upset your plans. “

We must let go of our own purposes of comfort and “big” projects. We can choose to align with God’s purpose and be blessed. Let us do it right away! God has “sent out” Jesus, so that we could be “seated” with Him. Now Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father. He is sending us out to a broken and needy world that is perishing!

Isaiah 6:8- “And then I heard the voice of the Master: "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?" I spoke up, "I’ll go. Send me!"