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Call to Ministry

Called to Discipleship

Deuteronomy 8:6-16 The Message

6-9 So it’s paramount that you keep the commandments of God, your God, walk down the roads he shows you and reverently respect him. God is about to bring you into a good land, a land with brooks and rivers, springs and lakes, streams out of the hills and through the valleys. It’s a land of wheat and barley, of vines and figs and pomegranates, of olives, oil, and honey. It’s land where you’ll never go hungry—always food on the table and a roof over your head. It’s a land where you’ll get iron out of rocks and mine copper from the hills.
10 After a meal, satisfied, bless God, your God, for the good land he has given you.
11-16 Make sure you don’t forget God, your God, by not keeping his commandments, his rules and regulations that I command you today. Make sure that when you eat and are satisfied, build pleasant houses and settle in, see your herds and flocks flourish and more and more money come in, watch your standard of living going up and up—make sure you don’t become so full of yourself and your things that you forget God, your God,

For Reflection

Children at play, those who walk along a beach, Young people who cluster to share visions of today and hopes for tomorrow, joyful people, those who travel to far off lands; all are called to ministry. Some accept God's call. Many are not aware of God's work through them. Some are so absorbed by making their way through the matrix of their lives that they are not aware of God's call.


But the living water cleanses all. The bright light of saving grace inhabits all. All are called to minister to the needs of others and to care for the Creation.  Like Peter, all will at sometime forget God and all are invited to repent and respond to the light of the Holy Spirit. All are called to rest.

Pray

Pray so that you can strengthen your reserve to act on the call of God to be kind, just, and forgiving. Pray so that you remember God and practice grace.

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