Scripture: Mark 13:33-37
Journal: What is the mission to which God has called you? What is the assigned task for which he has
gifted and made you? What tends to
distract you from that task?
Reflection: “It’s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his
servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the
door to keep watch.” (Mark 13:34, NIV)
Each of us, it would seem,
is given a particular task in the work of God. It is something God has assigned to
us, something specific and unique that he has made us to do. Thus, he has wired it into our DNA, breathed
it into our very being. It flows from
who we are and who he has made us to be.
And it is up to us, with God’s help, to discover just exactly what that work
is, and then to do it, at all costs. For
life with God involves being about his work, and not merely our own.
The problem is that life is
so full of demands and obligations and distractions that it is easy for us to
lose track of—or to never discover in the first place—what God has given us to
do, or who he has called us to be, in his great big world. We get so consumed with making a living or
managing our own lives that we lose sight of the fact that God made us
bigger purposes—the purposes and work of his kingdom. And it is this work that we must not
get distracted from.
Prayer
Closing
Prayer: Keep me focused today, O Lord, on who you have
called me to be and on the things you have given me to do. Amen.
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