That is right, I am quitting. I am throwing in the towel,
hanging up the hat, giving up the fight from not till forever. I’m done with it
all! I’ve reached the end of my rope and I’m not going to do it anymore.
Now before you begin to flood my inbox, front door and my phone
with questions of where I am going, please hear me out.
I’m not turning in my resignation to a ministry (that would
be a lousy way of doing such a thing). I’m not giving up on life, employment,
or on my marriage. All these things are going great.
I have come to a place of realization that sometimes I work
too hard toward my own goals and not enough on surrendering to God’s plan and
the destiny God has set forth for my life. I am departing from life as ordinary
and working toward the fulfillment of my plan A. I am through with my endless
goals that lead to burnout and exhaustion. It is high time that as ministers
and individuals that we divorce the idea of normal and ideal. We must embrace
God’s destiny.
It’s been said “If you want to make God laugh tell Him your
plans.” Solomon puts it slightly different in Proverbs 16:2 “All a person's ways seem pure to them, but motives are
weighed by the LORD.” I want to encourage all of us to examine the
driving force behind all of our choices, decisions, and plans. Are we spending
too much time planning and not enough time doing?
Real effective ministry happens when we stop trying to bring
the increase and simply trust in God’s destiny for our lives, families,
ministries, and events. Let us take the natural paths, too often it seems that
we have more planning meetings about something and never take action. We tend
to devise clever outreach programs and we have deceived ourselves. We think our
motives are pure but are we simply focused only on numbers?
Recently I was asked why we don’t see more people come to
the altar. How many people attended your Easter service? How many confessions
of faith have you had? Since when did Christianity become a numbers game? I
offer this warning to all of us, Let us be careful not to commit the same sin
as King David. When David numbered all the fighting men of Israel he committed
a great sin of pride.
Church ought to be organic and love ought to just happen. Let’s
be obedient to God’s commands and live moment by moment. Do the next right
thing. Let’s be careful not to live too focused on the future that we ignore
the needs of the present. What is God calling you to do in the moment?
I’m done with me and my dreams; I want His will in my life.
More than anything I want His spirit guiding me and not my heart. What about
you?
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