Make me a blessing!

Today, our pastor spoke about “living by faith in future grace”.   “Jesus will supply us with everything we need to remain faithful to God.”  

Living by faith is the most fulfilling, blessed way to live.   I am so grateful that God has provided me with a wonderful job and place to live, friends and family.   I have everything that I need to remain faithful to God.   God shows me every day why he brought me through the trials in my past and I am eternally humbled and blessed to be used by God to help those less fortunate, the sick and the helpless.   

Every day that I go to work as a nurse, I am humbled by the pain and suffering of others.   I am not always patient or kind.   I am not always perfect in the care that I give to others.  Sometimes, I am not even nice to a patient who is being very difficult in the depths of their illness.  For that, I am ashamed.

But every single day, God gives me the honor of being a blessing to someone by kindly and compassionately caring for them.   I cannot thank Him enough for supplying me with everything that I need and for choosing me to work in the most trusted profession in the world, as a nurse.

There are times at work, when I am so imperfect that I question being trusted with the task of caring for others.   But I remain strong in my faith, even when fears and doubts creep in, I stand on the promises that God has given to me, because I know that He who promised me is ever faithful.   I would be absolutely nothing without the Grace of God.  

There are also times, because of fatigue and soreness, I am not grateful.   I pray that God will continue to remind me of all that I have to be grateful for, and all the blessings that are mine through Christ Jesus.  

Today, I thought about this hymn, and I try to make it my prayer every day, “Make me a blessing, make me a blessing.   Out of my life, let Jesus shine.   Make me a blessing, Oh, Lord, my God.   Make me a blessing, to someone today.”