Andre Agassi was a great tennis player. During his career, he won eight Grand Slam singles tournaments, an Olympic Gold medal, and $31 million in prize money, not to mention the millions of endorsement dollars he earned. And yet Agassi hated tennis. In an excerpt from his biography, Agassi said, “I play tennis for a living, even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark secret passion, and always have.”[1]

Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Living in the light means living on mission. We should be doing the good works that God created us to do. But…unfortunately…Agassi is not alone in his emotion. Many spend their lives at a job but not on a mission. Many loathe what they do for a living. What a shame! The question for every person is: What did God build me to do? The quest of every person is: I am going to do what God built me to do!

Jesus, our Savior and example, understood his mission. There was a time in his hometown of Nazareth when Jesus was asked to read from a scroll in the synagogue. Unrolling the scroll, he found Isaiah 61:1-2 and read,

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor….

Let’s follow the Leader and be about our mission.

Father, don’t let us rest until we learn what you built us to do. Don’t let us rest until we are about the business of doing it. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

[1] Sports Illustrated, Nov. 3, 2009, 54.