Prayer: God, you made me in your image to do your work. Let me be your vessel, living your Great Commission until you give me rest. Amen.
Reading: 2 Timothy 4:6-8 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: Who hasn’t known those days where you feel like a vessel emptied of every drop? Worn out. Drained. Maybe you’ve spent the day working for others. Perhaps you’ve finished some promised project, and hopefully you are even gratified to know that you made a difference to someone’s happiness or well-being. But you are tired and spent. I feel like the imagery and sentiment of this selection connects me to the living Christ. In service to God, I too can be a source of sustenance. Not only am I, as a believer, assured of forgiveness and salvation; others may find this reassurance through my living out a life of love and Christian compassion. But God, through this scripture, reassures me in times when I feel overwhelmed that He asks of me only that which I can give. To live a life of love and faith to God and for others, for God and to others. The promise of rest and comfort doesn’t have to be seen only in terms of the end of life, either. Each day is a sort of departure, and any day that feels all-consuming or particularly trying but which you make it through with your faith intact should be finished with a contemplation of this passage and the balm it applies. --Heather LeBlanc
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