What if I told you that Jesus has given you a mission bigger than your ability to accomplish? And what if I also told you that’s exactly the point?

Just before the resurrected Jesus departed and ascended into Heaven, we read in Luke 24 that He commissioned His followers with a huge task: go proclaim repentance and forgiveness in Jesus’ name to the world.

This outward push was always the plan. Jesus reminds them that everything—the law, the prophets, the psalms—had been building toward this moment. The resurrection wasn’t the finish line. It was the starting gun to go save the whole wide world. What an enormous task!

But Jesus didn’t send them out empty-handed. “Stay in the city,” He said, “until you are clothed with power from on high” (Luke 24:49). Because the mission was great, so was their need. Proclaiming forgiveness to all the nations is not a task mere human effort can accomplish. It’s bigger than our natural ability. It requires a power that comes from outside ourselves. And God knew that very well. He always supplies those He sends.

Beloved, you were never meant to do this witnessing thing in your own strength. We’ve been sent out with the Good News, beginning right here in our hometown. And the same Spirit who clothed those first disciples with power from on high is available to you and me. With that provision, we’ll be successful.

The mission is too big for us. But it is not too big for the Spirit who lives in us. May we go out in obedience, trusting that the God who sends is the God who supplies.

Change begins in you!