Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

Listen

2/8/2005
By: Holy Trinity Lutheran

Listen. Do you hear him calling? Be still. Was that his voice you just heard, calling your name? Listen, child of God. It is your heavenly Father calling you, beckoning you to service in his kingdom in this world.

With the recent devastation in Asia from the tsunami, we saw how quickly personal possessions could literally be washed away in an instant. Everything people had worked for and enjoyed, gone—with no chance of recovery. In thousands of tragic instances, whole families were swept away. It was a disaster of such a magnitude that the agony of it was hard to fathom.

Listen. There were those who heard their Father calling them to service in this catastrophe. They were called to be their Father’s eyes and ears and hands in this hurting world. They came by the hundreds, from all walks of life, from many countries near and far to help. To give aid and solace and food and clothing and medicine to those that had been injured in this tragedy.

Not all of us can travel to the far side of the world to help. This is not the only way we are called to do our father’s work in this world.

Listen. Do you hear our heavenly Father? He is calling you, to service in his church. Calling you to be his eyes and ears and hands in this world in which we live. How will you respond? Will you gladly put down what you are doing and come and help? Will you seek to use the gifts your heavenly Father has given you as he intended?

Our church has need of many talents: typing, painting, baby-sitting, counting, praying, preparing the altar, singing, reading, gardening, organizing, acolyting, teaching.

Listen. Our Father is calling you. How will you respond to his voice when you hear your name called?

Margaret Dove