Posts tagged ‘waiting on god for answers to prayer’
We Will Remember
Shortly after I became a Christian at the age of 13, I began to sense some type of call to ministry. It was weird because no one in my family served as a pastor or evangelist or even a missionary to a foreign country. I wasn’t sure if my “calling” was simply a response to the truth of the Gospel and wanting to present it to others or if it was something that God was nudging me toward.
Over the decades since that time, I’ve served as a youth minister, an associate pastor and even as a youth director/janitor in a church. It was interesting that in all those service opportunities, the only direction I received from any pastor I served under was to pursue my masters of divinity degree because if I was really called into the pastorate, I would need that. It made sense. I already had a bachelors in Bible degree.
Our Citizenship – Where Is It?
I guess ultimately what I’m saying is that if God is working in and through me to accomplish the good works that He decided long ago I would do, then it is far more important to wait for His direction and watch Him work, rather than me worrying, agitating, and doing everything I can to make it work. With the latter, all I am doing (besides getting tired) is glorifying myself. In the former, I am resting in Him and ensuring that He is glorified. Isn’t that what the slave does anyway?
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