Jesus spoke these words to His disciples after His resurrection. Like you said, He also told His disciples to go and make disciples which can only be possible if they GO. But where are we, His disciples, supposed to go?

All of us can go as far as our neighbor’s house, or to speak with the street person asking for help, or any place in our local environs, including making telephone calls and internet connections — our Jerusalem. Others can go a short distance, like to Mexico if you live in Southern California — their Judea. And some people can go a bit farther out, maybe a short term (3, 5, 10+ days) mission trip — their Samaria. Then others are blessed to be able to go to a distant land — the remotest part of the earth.

Do we really want to be Jesus’ disciples? Then we must obey and go. Before we go we must seek the Lord, waiting on Him. When we wait in a surrendered attitude He will empower us by His Spirit and then we want to go — we cannot wait to go.

Jesus is our model. He spent time waiting to hear from His Father and He did what He saw His Father doing. God our Father sent His Son; Jesus said, “Even so, send I you…go.” As Jesus was going about doing the Father’s will He took His disciples with Him. After they’d been with Him for a while He sent them out on their own, in pairs, to do the same things He did — heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, preach the good news of the kingdom; they had the same results Jesus had. Amazing!

If we truly are His disciples we will take a few faltering steps, following someone, a modern-day disciple, who’s gone before. After a few times you will get hooked. Really! There is such joy in going and identifying with your Master that you want to go again and again. And sometimes the circle widens from your neighborhood, to your city, to more distant places.

My husband, Gary, and I started by picking up trash with our church group, using this as a way to invite street people to come have lunch in an empty parking lot. Not hard to do at all; even children came with their parents. Seeing the people fed and cared for was an uplifting experience. We graduated to reaching out in broader contexts and now we are full-time missionaries in Lithuania. When picking up trash in a nearby neighborhood we never dreamed we would find ourselves going and living half way around the world. But, oh the joy we have. There is no greater satisfaction than knowing you are in the center of God’s will, fulfilling His destiny for His own glory.

He has us where He has us for a reason! He loves to work through relationships.

I love the name of your blog, by the way!