CALLED TO BE FAITHFUL

CALLED TO BE FAITHFUL

Senator Mark Hatfield recalled touring Calcutta, India with Mother Teresa.  There he visited the “House of Dying,” where sick children were cared for in their last days.  He was also taken to see the dispensary, where hundreds of the poor lined up to receive medical care.  Watching Mother Teresa minister so compassionately to these people, Hatfield was overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the suffering that she and her co-workers faced every day.  “How can you succeed here?  And how can you bear the load of this without being crushed by it?” he asked.  Mother Teresa replied softly and humbly: “My dear Senator, we are not called to be successful, we are called to be faithful.”

According to I Peter 4:10, all believers are “stewards of the manifold grace of God.”  And the Apostle Paul concludes that “it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.” (I Corinthians 4:2) 

Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING. Maranatha!