(Essay) If we were a missionary, shouldn't we accept hardship?

It's New Year, but our lives are still not secure. Even if it is peaceful at a specific moment, we know it is not eternal. Our lives are so fragile that they break easily.

God gives us his peace, but it will not last forever within us. God's peace is eternal, but our faith holding the peace is shaky.

Don't attribute the reason to that our faith is small. We are at war, and how can peace be maintained on the battlefield even if the belief is rock solid?

One of the reasons why we are at war comes from our mission. Act 1:8 commands us to spread the Gospel to Jerusalem, all Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth. Remember that preaching the Gospel starts from Jerusalem, where our home is located.

We don't necessarily have to go somewhere to become a missionary. All Christians must live as a missionary, so our attitude about how to live matters, no matter where we are.

The life of a missionary accompanies hardship. The act of spreading the Gospel is not the only reason for the suffering that missionaries experience. When reading the testimonies of missionaries, we learn many of their difficulties from daily life issues.

If they are a jungle missionary, such little things as toilet or bedroom troubles are a challenging part of sufferings. A money problem is also a big issue as a missionary is a mere human.

Don't neglect the issues as worldly things.  A question should come first before devaluing.

What is my life aiming for?

If the centre of my life is evangelical, our daily life issues can be called missional ones.

Think of daily troubles, such as the coronavirus threat, high living cost, children's future path, housing problem, neighborhood noise, parking conflict.

As Romans 11:36 says, "from him, through him, for him are all things," all the living issues we go through come from Jesus, through Jesus, and for Jesus.

When such things keep happening, don't judge that my lack of faith causes them. All of this happens because I am in the mission field, which is at war.

Therefore we always face one crucial task. Make a victory over sufferings with the Gospel wherever we are because we are all missionaries who fight in the Gospel front.