The Essence of our Mission, Profession and Purpose

Remember the heart of the mission.

13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.

15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”-Mark2:13-17

There are certain individuals who are entrusted with a mission. Some individuals seek a certain profession (i.e. medical doctor), usually and normally with pure intentions. Unfortunately, there are those who forgot or lost the essence as to why there are entrusted with a mission, or why they are professionals. Some religious who ran hospitals originally have pure intentions - to heal the sick. But now, the very religious who promised to heal and care for the sick, refuse the sick if the latter has nothing to pay! In the same way, the leaders that we elect to serve the country are the very ones who corrupt the country! What has happened to us?

Jesus is encouraging us to always remember the heart and essence of our mission and profession. If we are doctors, we do not turn away the sick. If we are government workers, we serve the people. If we are teachers, we teach. If we are clergy members and religious men/women, we do not lose being Christ to others.

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