Lambs in Farmville: Luke10v2-4

There are many people who know that things are not right in the world and want to believe that there is more to life than going through the day to day motions. Eternity has been placed in the hearts of men and as the song goes, deep cries out for deep. When Jesus sent out the seventy-two this was a small number compared with how many poor and suffering who desired in their deepest being to be set free from the weight of oppression and sin, who wanted to know God and hungered for His faithfulness and for the renewal of the covenant through the Messiah. The number today of those who are willing to go out as lambs are still very few. To go out with the gift of peace in humility and grace and truly invite people into the Kingdom by healing and generosity, this is what Jesus sends his disciples out to do. We are not to come with worldly possessions, selling mansions or threatening hell, we do not ask ourselves or them "Who will ascend into heaven?' Will you?'" that is, to bring Christ down or "'Who will descend into the abyss? Will you?'" that is,to bring Christ up from the dead. But what do we say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" that is, the word of faith that the disciples of Jesus proclaim according to Paul the Apostle. The law and the prophets were until John and people were forcibly pushed through all sorts of manipulation and posturing into doing God's will, into the Kingdom, only to be taken advantage of and ravaged by wolves, and so they were prevented from entering and even those who were to guiding them did not enter.

May we go forth as lambs, being slaughtered all day long for the sake of those who would be saved, knowing that in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Being sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.