Women’s Connect November Devotional
Enjoy this devotional, written by Lynda McCalley. May you be encouraged by the reminder that our hope and identity are anchored in Jesus! Thank you, Lynda, for sharing this wonderful word with us!
Photo: Lynda McCalley
I had a volunteer flower come up this year growing between a tiny crack in the stairs in front of our house and then, next thing I know throughout the summer, it doubled and there were two of them side by side. Abbey Sindt was over one morning for prayer time with Sharie and I and she said that would make a great devotion. It’s been on my mind ever since and have wondered what God wanted me to see/learn.
I have been in my job for 37 years and a year ago was able to hire an assistant. I’m in Payroll and Benefits so a job where you can’t take a lot of time off because people need to get paid. It has not been easy for me to learn how to “share” my job as it was “my” job. Recently I realized that instead of me being that “go to” person and me helping other employees, people were starting to go to her. I started feeling this horrible feeling in me, like “why are people going to her and not me? That’s my job and what I like to do.” (However, this was the reason she was hired.) After much prayer from others and myself God has revealed to me the importance of “letting go”. She’s not “taking over” but adding to what I have to offer – just like the flower out front. It was pretty by itself but now has another flower that is just as pretty as the first. I don’t need to depend on others to make me happy and fulfilled, in the smallest of places he can make beautiful things grow. Why did I not think it could happen at work?
Photo: Lynda McCalley
The songs at church this morning resonated with me and led me to complete a devotion that had been suggested months ago.
Yet Not I But Through Christ in Me
“To this I hold, my hope is only Jesus, for my life is wholly bound to His. Oh how strange and divine I can sing all is mine yet not I, but through Christ in me.
To this I hold, my Shepherd will defend me, through the deepest valley He will lead. Oh the night has been won, and I shall overcome yet not I, but through Christ in me.”
Scandal of Grace
“Oh to be like you, give all I have just to know You, Jesus there’s no one besides You, forever the hope in my heart.”
~Lynda