The Good News Weekly Devotion | May 16, 2024
Yesterday, our staff met for a full day of reflection on the past almost 12 months and to plan the next 12 more for the 2024-2025 year. We went around the table and shared our experiences in our job positions, our triumphs and how we could use support going into the next year. Some of us are tenured in working in the church and some of us are brand new to it, yet we were all there together as one body to give life and love to our church and community. We all agreed that each one of us has amazing strengths and talents that are unique to each of us and we couldn’t do it without each other! While we all have other obligations and responsibilities in our life, together as a staff we will serve God with a purpose to grow our church and spread the Good News to our community. Yesterday we were able to focus on how we can continue to move forward as one body and what that will look like in the next year to come – it was a great day!
Mary Frances Carroll
Communications Director
This week’s devotion is from the Upper Room, and hopefully will allow you to reflect on God’s important purpose for you in your life.
An Important Purpose
In many of the apostle Paul’s greetings to the early churches, he stated that he was an apostle of Christ by the will of God. While Paul recognized his life’s purpose, often as believers we feel less assured of our purpose and wonder if God is using us in our present circumstances. Sure, God called great theologians like Paul to serve God. But we who work in factories, drive trucks, care for children, do clerical work, teach, farm, and live in all kinds of circumstances can also be used by God.
God has a purpose for each of us just as God had a purpose for the young servant girl we read about in 2 Kings 5. She served the wife of Naaman, army commander for the king of Aram. Her faith changed the course of Naaman’s life and helped alter his hostile view of Israel.
Many of us can’t fathom how God could use us, but God is continually working in and through our lives. We don’t have to be great theologians to be used mightily by God. We just need to trust that we have been called to follow God, whatever our circumstances. We can trust that God has a purpose for our lives.
Scripture
I trust that God has an important purpose for my life.
Faithful God, thank you for the ways you work in and through our lives. Help us to focus on how you might use us this very day. Amen.
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