1 Samuel 26:23 (New International Version)
The Lord rewards everyone for their righteousness and
faithfulness. The Lord delivered you into my hands today, but I would not lay a
hand on the Lord’s anointed.
In 1952 Mother Teresa began the work for which the
Missionaries of Charity have been known since. Her order received permission
from Calcutta officials to use a portion of the abandoned temple to the goddess
Kali, the Hindu goddess of death and destruction. Here Mother Teresa founded
the Kalighat Home for the Dying. She and her fellow nuns began gathering dying
Indians off the streets of Calcutta and brought them to this home to care for
them during the days before they died.
In 1974, Mark Hatfield was touring Calcutta with Mother
Teresa and visited the "House of Dying." He saw sick children were
being cared for, and the dispensary, where the poor line up by the hundreds to
receive medical attention. Watching Mother Teresa minister to these people,
feeding and nursing those left by others to die, Hatfield was overwhelmed by
the sheer magnitude of the suffering she and her co-workers face daily.
"How can you bear the load without being crushed by
it?" he asked.
Mother Teresa replied, "My dear Senator, I am not
called to be successful, I am called to be faithful."
Are you being faithful to what the Lord has called you to
do?
Dear Lord we thank You for the work You have called us to
do. We pray that we would always serve You faithfully. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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