Pastor's Reflection for the day

While we are thinking and considering how we can best use our time, talent, and energy to build the Kingdom of God here on earth, God will not be able to utilize the gifts we have received for that purpose. It is only when we cease trying to decide ourselves what would be best for us to do that God will be able to perform the unexpected miracles that require our help to succeed. Serving God to the utmost of our ability requires us to surrender all of our objectives and ideas of what we think we ought to do so that God can put the mind of Christ within us, fill us with the power of the Holy Spirit, and enable us to do the very things we might consider to be impossible. Having the mind of Christ empowered by the Holy Spirit to do the will of God often requires that the world perceives that we have no mind of our own.