Your mission grows at the pace of your turning to God
If you stop contemplating Christ, you can keep talking about him while gradually losing his way of seeing.
An intense mission produces tasks, messages, and encounters. The urgency makes it seem that turning to God takes time away from the very people you want to serve.
Without contemplation, however, the message can turn into strategy, activism, or repetition. Looking at Christ in the Gospel renews wonder, purifies motives, and recalls that you transmit a good you first received.
Turning to God does not guarantee results nor replace preparation and work. It changes the source from which you carry them out. It also brings specific names before God and allows you to return to them with more patience. The apostle does not turn to God to escape the mission, but so that his word may keep the tone, the hope, and the truth of the One he proclaims.
Key idea
The Christian mission needs to be nourished by contemplation in order to transmit an experience received and keep the way of seeing of Christ.
Your challenge for this idea
Before your next act of service or witness, contemplate a Gospel scene for ten minutes and choose a gesture of Christ you want to imitate.
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