as many people know and to those of you who don't, i want to be a pastor. it is the only thing that i can possible do with my life that i know that i would not be wasting my life doing and i don't want to waste my life so i must be a pastor.
i have heard other pastors so that the greatest need of their congregation is their pastor's personal holiness. while i think that is needful, i would go a step further and so that the greatest thing for a pastor's soul is his personal holiness. a pastor is held responsible for the souls of his congregation. if he doesn't teach the truth to the best of his ability and do as much as he can for his flock, then it is on his soul in the end of time. so then what is the best thing for the congregation? by what means will they get the purest form of the truth? if the pastor is personally holy.
so, a pastor must seek to be holy for his congregation's sake and because of their sake, it is then for the pastor's own sake. so a teacher must first be holy for his congregation, and then for himself.
i have much work to do. i am so far away. there is so much time that i waste that i could be doing things that will help me. i must put off my childish acts so that i may be personally holy as i teach this summer and then through out my life. one thing is that i must spend way less time doing silly things on the computer, mostly on facebook and hulu. i must stop. it is fruitless. there is one thing, one book that i must know above all and that is what i must be spending my time in. at this stage in my life, i am in the desert as paul spent his 3 years in the desert. this is my time to learn all that i can so that in the days to come, i will be able to teach and not labor to study as i must now. reading and studying will always be an essential part of my life, but not near to the point that it must be now.
it's time to kill some flesh
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
This sounds really judgementle!!! There are many people that cant be pastors so are we wasting are lives? SO I guess ur dad is wasting his life because he's not a paster!
ReplyDeletein the body of Christ, we are not all mouths. i believe i am called to be a pastor, my dad has been called to be a businessman. i am to be the best pastor that i can be and my dad is to be the best businessman he can be, all for the glory of God.
ReplyDeletei am boarder line scared of being a pastor because of the responsibility of being one and yet i must for conscience sake. if i loved to do and wanted to do anything else with my life and i went into the ministry, my ministry would not prosper as much. God can still use someone in the wrong place, but it works better when we listen to Him. if i am called to be a layman, i would absolutely do that and i would do it for the glory of God, just as i will as being a pastor.
we only waste our lives if we do not live for God and His glory. if you do not live for God then you are wasting your life.
But is that something that Gods calling you to do or it something your dad or Sean want you to do? Less then two years ago you wanted to be a teacher because you loved working with kids, and are great at it. You were able to teach the kindergarters a little bit about God plus got to spend time working with kids. You seemed happyier and wanted to talk more about God, now you dont seem to smile and enjoy life as much as you did last year. Yes there are people who cant be pastors and they need to do the very best job that God has assigned them to, but also ask yourself what Pastor Zimmer says, "Make sure there is no other job that you are able to do, if there isnt any job that can do other then being a pastor then you are called to be a pastor, if there is a job you can do then your not called to be a pastor".
ReplyDeleteI've seen you with kids they love you as well as you love them. Your really good with them and seems to me that God gave you a true gift of working with children. I heard you tell how much you enjoy working with them, teaching them and then watchung a light turn on when they get what you were trying to teach them.
Grant I pray that you find Gods will in your life and keep growing deeper in your face with Christ. your anonymous friend