We always have staff meetings before the first day of school each term. It is good way to get all our bases covered - sign up for activities for the term, teacher's meetings, dorm parent's meetings, coach's meetings, etc. But most importantly, we pray together.
This term our high school principal shared a devotional thought with us. He challenged us from Revelations and Ephesians. In Rev. 2:4 it says, " Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first."
Tim shared that our main reason we come here to serve at RVA is our love and passion for Jesus Christ. And sometimes in the juggling of all the activities, classes, teams, etc. we start to lose focus of that. It is easy to get focused on our agenda, our time frame, our work load, the student who frustrates us, the irritating parts of living in a different country, etc. There are so many things to distract us from our first love. I was so convicted.
Tim went on to share Ephesians 3: 14-19,
"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."
And it was so good to be reminded what we are here for. That Christ strengthens us for the task ahead of us. That He lavishly loves us and that we can be filled up to the top with His love in order to let that love spill out to others. That is why we are here.
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