encouragement and affirmation

read this in an email i received. "Golf Games and Celery Sticks" - by Max Lucado. the article really encouraged me indescribably...

for some reason, the past week i've been led to think again about my commitment to full-time. new questions, new misgivings... old ones too resurfacing... especially anxieties about "am i just doing it cos i like it?"

if you're interested, leave me a comment or email and i'll forward u the mail =) dun think i should post the whole chunk here. heh... copyright plus too long... =b

here's what struck me the most:

"Anyone near Christ for any length of time heard it from Jesus himself. “The Son of Man came to find lost people and save them” (Luke 19:10). “The Son of Man did not come to be served. He came to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many people” (Mark 10:45).


The heart of Christ was relentlessly focused on one task. The day he left the carpentry shop of Nazareth he had one ultimate aim—the cross of Calvary. He was so focused that his final words were, “It is finished” (John 19:30).


How could Jesus say he was finished? There were still the hungry to feed, the sick to heal, the untaught to instruct, and the unloved to love. How could he say he was finished? Simple. He had completed his designated task. His commission was fulfilled. The painter could set aside his brush, the sculptor lay down his chisel, the writer put away his pen. The job was done.


Wouldn’t you love to be able to say the same? Wouldn’t you love to look back on your life and know you had done what you were called to do?"

blessed to be a blessing. =)