Strength to Strength

If you were to serve as “my hands” for a day, I’d keep you plenty busy. I would need you to sit next to me at my desk and help with my correspondence and schedule. I might dictate a letter or article, challenging you to type as fast as I speak.

Later on you could help me organize my books, photocopy pages, file copies, brew coffee, help me with lunch, empty my leg bag, and run a few errands. If I needed an adjustment with my corset or catheter, you could help me lie down on the office sofa. And we’d be only halfway through the day!

How would we accomplish so much work? Spirit-inspired energy! My assistant and I go from strength to strength. That means pausing in between projects to pray, pulling a hymnal off the shelf to sing praise songs before lunch, praying over the phone with someone who happens to call, even stopping for tea at four o’clock and reading a line or two of Scripture. Going from strength to strength in God’s Spirit means pausing regularly during your day to allow God to refresh you. It is the only way to work. It is the only way to live.

Remind me, Lord, to take many pauses throughout the day to think about you, to set my mind on you, and to be refreshed by you. Carry me from strength to strength. Amen.

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