John 6:38. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own
will, the will of him who sent me.
This passage spoken by Jesus is awesome, sad, comforting,
and challenging to me. Awesome, because God loves us so much that he wanted to
send us a savior in human form so that we could really see and hear Him and be
in relationship to Him; sad, because this little baby would grow, be rejected,
suffer, and ultimately die to show us his love; comforting, because Jesus said
that ‘this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all
that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day”; challenging, because I
want to be all that He wills for me.
Often in the mornings, I sit at a small table by the
window overlooking birch trees and the driveway that crosses a creek and wind
my beloved Aunt’s gold pocket watch. She was the person during my growing up
years that loved me unconditionally and I can feel her presence in the touch of
that watch. I pray for my family and those names that seem to rise to the
surface and at the end I ask that Jesus will make me aware during the day of
doing His will and not my own. In the touch of that watch, I can sometimes feel
and hear Jesus speaking in my heart. I regret that this does not always lead to
a successful day, but it does make me more aware of living with purpose.
I am in the senior years of my life and I am finally
realizing that it is not measured in triumphs and defeats, but in loving and
not losing what has been and will be placed in my little life.
My prayer for all of you is that you, too, will rest in
the knowledge of just how much God loves each one of us and that the wonderful
plans He has prepared for you will be revealed as you seek Him!
—Alyce
Rogers
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