–Jesus, at the Ascension (Acts 1:8, NLT)
All of us like to build up our own spot of land, to pursue the things that make us happy—we’ve even enshrined them as rights in some cases. But the life of a Christian is the opposite of this: he gives up his own life for the sake of the mission of Jesus. And it is not an easy life. The Christian is called to leave her life of comfort for the sake of Jesus’ mission, to walk by faith when things are dark, to go out in the face of opposition—all so that all people in all places can know the name of Jesus Christ and hear of the hope and truth of his gospel.
