On a Mission
- Gary Fritsch
- Sep 2
- 2 min read
Many of you have shared with me that you have enjoyed the revolutionary TV series: “The Chosen”. One of the things that I love about this series is that it gives you a glimpse of what it really took to do what Jesus did. There were arrangements to be made, dealing with home situations, setting up and tearing down camp. This didn’t just happen on its own. In today’s Gospel we get a glimpse of just how busy some of Jesus’ days were.
Check out this itinerary: Teaching and healing in the synagogue. From there to Peter’s house where He heals Peter’s mother-in-law and then stays for a meal. By the time evening rolls around, people with every type of disease and demon are being brought to Him and ‘he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them’. The next day, he wakes early to go and pray, and then prepares to move on to the next town to preach the Gospel. We don’t get the blow by blow for every day, but we can fill in the blanks and understand that many of them were probably like this.
Jesus never seems to tire of the needy, or the sick or the poor or the interruptions. Why? Because the people ARE His Mission. They aren't just the sick – they are the healing He came to do. They aren’t the needy, they are the ones he came to free. They aren’t interrupting, they are inviting Him to continue doing what He came for. They aren't defined by their maladies or their needs. They are the ones He came to save. This is our Mission as well. Do we see it that way?
In our days, are we inconvenienced, are we bothered, are people getting in the way of our important mission, or do we consider that they ARE the mission for us as well. Each one is an invitation to love, and that is what we are called to do. Love well today, love better tomorrow, love the people who are in front of us. We are supposed to make disciples of all nations – might as well start with the ones in front of us and become a Man (or Woman) on a Mission.
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