Acts 13:13-25 / John 13:16-20
Jesus came to bring us back to God. His message is simply this: that God forgives us our sins and wants us to inherit the eternal life with Him that He wants to give us.
Jesus is Lord and Master, yet He when He was on earth, He did not cling to His equality with God, but He humbled Himself in obedience to His Father, even to death on the Cross.
As we read the gospel, Jesus, after washing the feet of His disciples said this: I tell you most solemnly, no servant is greater than his master, no messenger is greater than the one who sent him.
Jesus was, in fact, talking about Himself, that He came to serve in obedience to His Father, and that the message that He proclaims is the message from God.
As His disciples, we too have taken on the mission of Jesus, and that is to serve as He did and to proclaim the Good News as He did.
As we accept this mission, we also accept to be sent out by Jesus as servants and messengers.
On the other hand, coming to meet us will be those whom Jesus is going to send to us.
So we cannot choose who to go to and what we want to do.
As servants and messengers, we have to be prepared to accept whoever Jesus sends to us and what He wants us to do for them.
Yes, we have to die to ourselves in obedience and accept those that Jesus sends to us and they will most probably be what we don't expect.
But let us welcome the ones that Jesus sends to us, and in doing so, let us remember that we are welcoming Jesus and obeying and serving Him.