Are you ready to accept your mission from God?
To borrow the words of James T Kirk – Captain of the USS Enterprise:
“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
Nick Knight, a former English cricketer and now commentator, suggested that the captain of the English cricket team and the coaching staff have approached the T20 format of the game in such a way as to reach new heights where they as individuals and as a team have never been before. Doesn’t that have a similar ring to Captain Kirk’s speech?
This audacious approach to the game was made on the back of some new exciting batting and bowling talent that is coming through their playing ranks. They believe these players have the ability, fortitude and determination to make it happen. I am not certain if this vision of theirs pertains only to their own heights as players or to the heights of cricket universally.
Is there a guarantee that they will do so – No.
Do they have a plan to achieve these lofty goals?
That I am not able to answer, but I am quite certain they will be well aware that to reach such heights they are going to have to go about training and playing cricket differently, they are going to have to establish a new template on how to play the game.
Secondly, I wonder what strengths they are going to play to? What logic they may look to defy?
Thirdly, how will they build resilience into their belief system to match those goals? Do they believe they are capable of achieving such lofty heights, which, when understood in plain language, is meant to change the complexion of how the T20 game is played? This belief needs to remain intact when, as has been the case now on tour in SA, they lose a couple of games in a row and people, experts of the game, start to challenge the “game plan” calling it naïve. How will they plan to deal with the self-doubt that might creep in?
The call from our Father has a similar ring to it and His desire is to see us “boldly go where we have never been before”. The mission will have an impossible ring to it, but at the same time appeal to our spirit of adventure.
Men, there is an appeal in our heart to live for Him, to give ourselves to something that is eternal. To boldly go where we have never been before to advance His Kingdom. God wired that into us when He shaped us in the womb.
So how do we respond to “Mission Impossible”, to go where we have never been before?
We first remember what the angel Gabriel said about our Father, “For with God nothing [is or ever] shall be impossible.” His planning is flawless, with every strategy intelligently and meticulously thought through as He creates towards the end picture He has in mind. Consider the significance of your part in this mission when you consider it in the context of a God who never acts randomly or by chance.
On Friday & Saturday, the 11th & 12th March 2016, Men of Valour will be hosting another conference down the South Coast at Skogheim where we will be looking at accepting this mission from God. Answering questions on the new template required for our lives as defined by our God given dreams and desires that call to our strengths, abilities and talents. To defy logic and build His kingdom, to have the fortitude to finish this mission strong.
Ephesians 3:20 (Amplified Bible)
20 Now to Him who is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly more than all that we dare ask or think [infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams], according to His power that is at work within us,
It has to be this way, so that He can get the glory and we get to enjoy the richest experience of God’s presence in our life.