Then it hit me like a thunderbolt. I was getting lost in the morass of details all the things that could be said, all the things that should be said, all the things I thought you might expect me to say, councils, committees, commissions, tasks forces, deadlines, details and on and on and on. Then it dawned on me that my answer was in the text. Jesus understood this a long time ago. Life must be lived against the backdrop of that which is greater than the self.
Otherwise life is mired down in the constant micro-management of a mess.
Listen to the inner logic of the text. First, He asks them to do the impossible. Go into all the world .make disciples of all nations . But look at the end of the text, And remember, I will be with you. That s the exact same thing God said to Moses when He told Moses to do the impossible.