Pastor's Reflection for the day

In My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers writes: “[God requires] a faithfulness to what we discern when we are in the closest possible fellowship with God." This requirement means that we must be willing to experience a suffering similar to St. Paul as described during his road to Damascus conversion: "I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake" (Acts 9:16). To attain the closest possible fellowship with God, we must first be in constant prayer, and devote ample time to studying Scripture, to insure that we are communicating well with God. Following this, if we are certain that we have committed our essential being to moving beyond self to discern God's call on our life; we must faithfully travel the journey on which God leads us. If there is suffering, (which is almost certain when giving our whole being to a purpose the world seldom understands), it will become a source of joy in knowing that as we follow the example of Jesus we are serving the Living God.