Daily Inspiration

“Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed, saying: “Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely. I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the Evil One. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth.” —John 17:11-19

We are at war. I do not speak of a geopolitical upheaval; I speak of a spiritual battle that has raged since the serpent tempted Eve, and Eve tempted Adam. While Jesus could have swept His disciples up into the safety of heaven, He chose to place them behind enemy lines.

Throughout the centuries, from one Christian to another, Christ sends His warriors on a search-and-rescue mission. Our orders are simple: leave no soul behind. Our commission is to speak the truth of Christ to all who will hear, and bring the willing back to where they belong, joyously living in the Truth of God.

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