In a world today it seems like if you hold a title that there is an expectation of you rather it is good or bad. Everyone or should I say society has an opinion of who you should be. I have especially been doing some thinking with that as an Intern. I have never had a formal role in church and I don't know if you can call it that but being on staff for the first time at a church has made me think about what it might be like to go through a ministers head. For me I have thought about , " Lord , how do I represent you well ?", because I know in reality that I will let people down. I would like to say I can meet every need asked of me but truth is I am not God.
I can only offer to be the hands and feet that Jesus allows me to be! This is a heavy lesson especially as I have thought about the things around me from a person who may be homeless or a friend who is hurting. My first reaction is to run and be a band-aid but truth I can't meet like Jesus can!Of course to be honest with you I think I even build these expectations up in my head as well.
It's not easy my friends to live in the world we live in friends especially as Christians! We so truly forget that or I think that we do , all Christ wants us to please Him ! And when we please Him then out that will flow the heart of ministry!
My friends it is so important to walk in Christ! I am so heavily learning that because if I don't I find I drown myself in my own strength when what I really need is God's strength! So, I check in today's reality I am not God. I am not in control! He is God!
Ephesians 5:8-10
For you were once darkness but now you are in the light in the Lord. Live as children in the light for the fruit of the light consist in all goodness and righteousness and truth and find out what pleases the Lord
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