Sent to Reach One

S - "I cannot do anything on my own. The Father sent me, and he is the one who told me how to judge. My judgment is faultless because I obey him, and don't try to please myself. … I don't depend on what people say about me … something more important than John speaks for me. I mean the things that the Father has given me to do! All of these speak for me and prove that the Father sent me." John 5 - Jesus

O - Jesus' assignment on earth was never to try and "get people to believe in him."  He came with the primary focus of being the One the Father sent.  His "job" was to be the One, to be his Father's exact representation (John 12:44-45; Hebrews 1:3).  It is the ultimate in "in reach". He never worked for his Father, only with him. The result was an influence unlike any other our world has known.  Later on he would pray (John 17:18) and then say (John 20:21) that he would send others just as the Father sent him. 

A -  Heaven sends humans very differently than earth does. According to Jesus, the most important person for me to influence every day and in every setting is me.  He wants my focus to be getting and keeping the beam out of my own eye; to, with his enabling, reach myself in being one of his own.  All other activities, conversations and engagements with others must flow from this reality.  Like Jesus, my assignment is to love God by obeying and not trying to please myself. 

P -  Lord of all and Lord of me,

I am asking, seeking, knocking for this year to be the greatest year of in reach I've ever known.  I want to be yours; to be one who follows, imitates and sticks.  Please Lord, together let's reach me!

All my love,

Steve