In the Bible, there's a guy named Abraham

And the very first thing God says to him is, go leave everything you've ever known

Go to an unknown and uncharted place, and I will bless you and you will be a blessing

Go Abraham

And then there's Moses

God meets him in the desert and speaks to him and says, go, Moses, go to the place you came from to the people where you once were

Go because I am sending you

Go and help my people find freedom and redemption

Go Moses

And then there's Jeremiah, the prophet

He's young, he's inexperienced, he's afraid, and God says, go, Jeremiah, I'm with you

And then there's Elijah, Esther, Ezekiel, Ruth, and many others who heard the call of God to go

And they went

And then the final words of Jesus to his disciples before he ascended into heaven, Go

I've heard it said that you can be comfortable or courageous, but you can't be both

That's true for Abraham, true for Moses, true for Jeremiah, true for you and true for me

See, in the Bible there are comforting words like forgiveness, freedom and redemption and adoption

But In the Bible there are also commanding words Like repent, Believe, Follow and go

Maybe that's the words you need to hear today, to go across the room, cross the hall, go across the street, go across the campus, go across the city, the nation, go across the world go

It's important for us to remember that this isn't just a command to go

This is an opportunity

An opportunity to bless and to bring hope and to be salt and to shine light in dark places and to give to others what was first given to us

You see, we don't just go because that's what good Christians do

We go, because 2000 years ago, God looked down on a broken and hopeless and hurting world and he looked on with compassion

And then he looked at his son, his one and only son, the one and only person who could do anything about it

And he looked at him and he said, Go

And he did

And he lived And he Died and he rose, and now he reigns

And now we go, because he did it first

He moved from heaven to earth so that we could move from comfort to courage

And so that's my prayer for you

Not just that you would move to a new city with a new zip code, but that you would move from comfort to courage

That We would all move from complacency to urgency

My prayer for you is that the most beautiful thing in the world to you would not be cars and careers, but the gospel of Jesus Christ

To know him and to make him known

And my prayer for you is that today you would put your yes on the table and you would leave it there to go wherever and whenever God leaves you to go

And so I can't promise that it'll always be exciting

I can't promise it'll always be easy

Can't promise

It'll always make sense

But I can promise you this, it will always be worth it