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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