In the movie, "Argo", it depicts a CIA operative putting together a rescue attempt of six US diplomats being held in Tehran, Iran ...during the 1979 hostage crisis.

Whether it be Para-rescue ---Special Activities Division, Delta Force, or Navy Seals ...some form of SMUs, Special Mission Units, though planning attempts to minimize risk ---risk is involved.

And just like the fireman who risks his life to save yours, you are not satisfied if there is a family member of yours still in there.  Your plea is, "My 9 year old daughter is still in there!"

The fireman may have given his all to get you out, but your words to him strike the core of his resolve.  As he and the building are both about to collapse, he goes back in there.

Imagine you are a Doctor ...your resolve is to save life. It is called the Hippocratic Oath, traced back nearly two and a half millennium ago ...to Hippocrates, who is referred to as The Father of Medicine.

This resolve was considered revolutionary in its devotion to the preservation of individual human life ---The Hippocratic Oath; not to be confused with the Hypocritic Oath, a poem (not mine) found in some magazine article, goes something like this: 

"He must take the Hypocritic Oath, 

And sign the Pact of Lies, 

Enter the chamber of that ancient place, 

Where Truth lays down and dies.

Again, imagine you are a Doctor.  You join others in the great need that is calling overseas.  Several tribes are experiencing a terrible epidemic.  Those tribes have contracted it from other tribes ...and are passing it on to still other tribes.  Over a short period of time, thousands have died ...and thousands more are soon to.  And their food sources have depleted, their animals having died also.  

Panic grips every village, as they don't know why ...but, you discover why.

But, they don't trust you.  The adults will not accept your vaccination, and they won't allow you to get near their children.

Word gets around that you caused the terrible death that has plagued their people and their villages.

What do you do?

If you don't help them, they have little chance for survival ...and few would survive, if not entire villages perish.  But, they don't want your help.

You have a difficult decision to make ...but, you knew that when you entered medicine.  Do you just let them die, because of their ignorant disbelief?  By trying to help them, are you wrong to intrude in this way into their lives, when they've made it abundantly clear to you that you are unwelcome ...so much so, as to even blame you for the deaths?

Another wise Doctor among them, brings his own sick pet animal with him to a place where the villagers are gathered together to do their mourning.  He gives the animal a vaccination ...and the people witness the animal quickly getting well.  One of the mothers leaves the side of her own sick daughter, and goes to inform the tribal leaders ...but, they still don't trust any of the Doctors.

In desperation, the mom brings her daughter to the Doctor and pleas for the vaccination ...as she knows she can't save her.

Her daughter gets well, and others begin to trust ...bringing their own children.

    

SMUs ...Special Mission Units, we've mentioned those well-trained and fully defined missions. Yet, there are other special missions that are well-defined with what their resolve is.

At this point, I'm referring to those who go out into the uttermost parts of the earth to tell others about Jesus.

This reality is much different than the story about the doctor.  Missionaries are trying to help the spiritually dead.  You can't first lead an animal to spiritual good health ...to show them of the healing.  Many people say missionaries have no right ...that we should respect the people's culture & leave them alone, even if they are left alone to much terrible suffering.  If not outright cruel, it is definitely a deep lack in caring.  And I find it very warped for those who attempt to hide behind their own comparative insensitivity, to accuse others who do care, of disrespectfully intruding upon their lives.  

If I came to your door offering  free ice cream, or a huge sum of prize money ...I don't think you'd accuse me of intruding, or being disrespectful.  Yet, there is something so great that no money can buy ...and it's absolutely free, yet, I do realize the value of something has to be first realized before it is desired.  And a starving person has no value for a diamond, unless there is a readily available market ...where it can be exchanged for food and immediate comfort.

Yes, the value has to be first realized.  Please, realize that Jesus died ...desiring you to have eternal life.  But, you have to desire it too.  

Other seals are waiting ...for the precise time, followed by trumpets, and vials or bowls.  These bowls are way more significant than any Superbowl ...and I do not desire to see the activity of any of them.  Please pray for others ...and for yourself, so none of us will lose our resolve.  We will not lose our salvation ...but pray that we will continue to be a witness to who He is, and to the glory that awaits all who will accept Him.