He Wants YOU on His Team

 

 

“(Jesus said:) ‘It is not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name He may give you.’”

--John 15:16

 Christ wants us to be clear on this. It makes a difference:  When you choose something -- for example, to sign up for a class or support a particular cause – you may not know if you’ll fit in or if you’re needed. The person in charge might not know anything about you except your name, if that.

But Christ has chosen you. He wants you on His team. He knows everything about you. He loves you. You are valuable and necessary in His mission! Teresa of Avila explains why:

‘Christ has no body but yours,

No hands, no feet on earth but yours.

Yours are the eyes with which He looks compassion on this world.

Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good.

Yours are the hands with which He blesses all the world.

Yours are the hands.

Yours are the feet.

Yours are the eyes.

You are His body.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours.’

 God needs you to get His message out to the world! Think of the circumstances surrounding where you live, the work you do, and the people you interact with both professionally and socially. God has chosen you to show His love in those places, with those people, using the gifts and talents He’s given you. That’s why He created you with those particular skills!

When we accept Christ’s appointment and root our actions and intentions in Him, we’ll bring Him closer to the people around us. True, we’ll make mistakes. He knows this, and still He chooses us to be on His team. He helps us use these experiences to grow in our faith and trust in Him so that we may do the works that He does and even greater ones than these (see John 14:12).

God has chosen you for a reason: There’s no one else in the world like you to do the work He needs you to do!

“Thank You, Lord, for choosing me! Show me how and where I can bring You to the people around me.”

 

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