32nd Day of Lent
It is Dangerous Out There
"I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves" Luke 10:3

One train of thought I frequently hear is that once a person becomes a Christian, life will be easy.  God wants to bless you and make you prosper.  This blessing and prosperity comes in the from of material goods  and a comfortable life.  God loves you.  Why wouldn't God want the finest things for your life?

This is probably more prominent in our country, the most prosperous nation in the world.  But if you've ever traveled abroad to other, poorer countries, you know that this simply doesn't make sense.  Life, and the Christian faith, is not about  being comfortable and prosperous.  It's about loving God and our neighbor, wherever God places us.

Jesus was not sending out these seventy disciples on a comfortable mission.  It would be dangerous and there would be resistance.  Just as the mission of Jesus entered into conflict and danger, so it would be for the disciples.  But the promise is that Christ would be there with his followers.  He does not send them where he is unwilling to go.  Hold on to that promise today, whatever your life circumstances and wherever you may be sent.