Achievements

We met a lady again this week who had come to the Army when we were the officers at her local corps. Whenever we have recounted the joys, sorrows, battles and victories we experienced in that appointment her story has never really featured to any great extent.

This was not because we did not think she was important but because we didn't really think our influence upon her life had been that significant or had called for any great sacrifice on our part. Her perspective was quite different and she shared that the support that Alan in particular had given her at a time of bereavement had saved her life.

I remember once being in a meeting where a missionary gave her testimony. She shared some of the work that she had been involved in but she ended by saying that she left the mission field knowing that it could well be, that the most significant thing she had done there was something she had completely forgotten and nobody else knew about.

I admit that I have often thought that it is the thing that I have worked the hardest on, had the most visible results in and given me the most personal satifaction that have mattered most.

The reality is that there is only one achievement that is of any worth in any appointment. It is our loving obedience of Christ.

God bless

Carol