The Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

WORLD MISSION   DAY

Dr. Lloyd Judd practiced medicine in rural Oklahoma. Many of his patients were poor and had no transportation. He often had to drive hours to their homes to treat them. One day Dr. Judd too sick. He checked into a hospital and discovered that he had a terminal cancer. His children, distraught asked why he extended himself so much for his patients.

 

He said, with great satisfaction, because they were my patients, I cared for them.

 

We would consider Dr. Judd a hero wouldn’t we? Because he was a servant to his patients. He showed his family and the medical community that being last often times means going out of your comfort zone to help others that giving up your own life for the sake of others is the greatest gift you can give.

 

This is World Mission Sunday and our minds and hearts reach out today to people like Dr. Judd who make the business of their lives the living out of the Gospel message, “For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

 

My friends, what is it we are willing to sacrifice for the good of others? What makes us great,

 

our social status or our service?