Moritz Weidt
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you.
It is a common thing while being a pastor. Times when you are overwhelmed by the weekly workload, disappointed that a project you spent a lot of time with didn´t work out, or feeling so stuck by work, that creativity, power, and joy have gone. Especially the feeling of being alone responsible for a congregation or even for the spreading of God´s News and the salvation of the church tears down. Paul – stuck in prison - brings his thankfulness into words and says: I am thankful for all of you my colleagues that I am not alone. I hold you all in my heart as colleagues who do not leave me alone with defense and confirmation of the gospel. But Paul also recognizes that the responsibility is not laying on his colleagues alone. He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
As a becoming pastor it is great to realize how many people are filled with the love of God and in which places voices are raising to worship the lord. How often is it me, a student of theology, who does not share but just receive God´s word and then join in the joy of the lord.
Let us join in Paul’s prayer that God´s love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment what God already has done and is doing right now.
