When I teach, I like to keep a little piece of paper on my semi-desk. I wrote the words that a friend sent me at the beginning of my semi-teaching job. Here are the words:

I do pray that the Lord will use you in that setting and that these ladies will be faced with a choice.

“Faced with a choice”? Am I not supposed to teach English? These people pay to learn English, not to be preached at, not to be shown love. For sure they’d take the love and the care the teacher will give, but that comes naturally and lots of people give love and care easily. But sharing Jesus? Preparing these students, these ladies to be faced with a choice about trusting Jesus or not? It sounds a bit odd. I’m called a “teacher” not a “missionary”. I’m not in a jungle somewhere, this is Montréal!

Aren’t we all called to make Christ and His Gospel the priority of our lives? No matter the title we’re given by our superiors on earth, our God, our Father has given us a title, we’re His ambasadors, called to make Him known for who He truly is, called to show in Jesus the way to the Father, we’re peacemakers.

It’s not in our job-description as students, cashiers, lawyers, secretaries and so on, to share the Gospel, but that should still be our number one priority. I’m realizing this can cause some of us to lose face, reputation, money, time and more. But really, tell me, what is more important than the cause of Christ and the Kingdom of God. We lose contact with this reality so easily, so quickly. So yeah, somehow, we’re called to make waves. Sometimes there’s no lake or water to make waves, it really seems out-of-place. But still, it is our joy and privilege.

Makin’ waves?