Yesterday morning started with a visit to the hospital for our dear friend who is succumbing to cancer. They moved her home with hospice care yesterday afternoon. Our quartet is going there tonight to sing her favorite songs for her. While we were at the hospital one of our pastors and wife came. The wife asked Penny what she was hearing from God’s Spirit? Penny immediately said, “I’m just made to realize how insignificant the details of life are in comparison to where I am going. I have a peace I cannot explain.” It makes letting go a little easier when I hear this.

There is a calling God has for each one of us. The first seems always to be to accept His Son Jesus as our Savior inviting Him into our lives. The second calling is the one to make Jesus the Lord of our life. This second calling is the one that has consumed me, haunted me and awakened me to the reality of my humanness/weakness along side of Christ’s Strength and Power. I have longed for Christ’s Power to be mine so I would never fall prey to temptations of the flesh. Today I am finally seeing that in order to live with Christ’s Strength and Power as my own I am to do so keeping focused only on today. The great I AM is with me today and if I stay awake to this I will rely on HIM rather than on me. 

Several years ago I read the biography of Mother Teresa. I wanted to know how someone could be so strong in the Lord. One particular story in it told of her flying to Mexico to address some major issues a town was having. When she was asked who was meeting her at the airport, she didn’t know. All she knew was that she was to go there. She went on to say that she also knew God had the plans/details in place otherwise she wouldn’t have been nudged to go. This FAITH and TRUST is what I know Jesus wants me (each of us) to have in Him. This confidence in FAITH/TRUST is not just for Mother Teresa, it is for you and me. She practiced this one day at a time keeping her eyes on Jesus, her ears listening to His Voice and then to obey (not question) His Message. This has become my daily purpose.