Venturing into the unknown

[Rev. VM Mathew]

Is there anything unknown in this world? We are able to get all kinds of information on the Net. So what is it that is unknown?

• We don’t know the person next to us and our neighbors.
• We don’t know the pain that some of our friends go through.
  

Jesus is one person who always went to the unknown, be it the Samaritan or the leper.

1. To go to an unknown area we need to go beyond boundaries. Like Christ who went beyond boundaries. We need to go out of our comfort zone. There are some boundaries that we should not cross. We end up crossing these, rather than the ones we need to cross.
2. We need to travel through the less traveled road. In the parable of the lost sheep, the shepherd went in search of one sheep, though he had 99 of them. This is the less traveled road.
3. We need to take some risk. Jesus took the risk to reach out to the unknown. We don’t take risks in our lives. Jesus’ mission was to venture into the unknown. We tend to remain in the known.