Ministry As Is

It is about 10:21 pm PST. Knowing that some of you are somewhere in the world reading this I just felt like I needed to share. Yes, just a thought about ministry and its pains mixed with great pleasures. Sitting in my chair tonight, that I love to be comfortable in, I realized something. It came alive in my heart. The Lord placed me in a servant’s career! It hurts most of the time but there are pleasures that like anointment to the wounds, bringing relief to that which one suffers when truly serving Him and the creation that He put into existence. The incredible burdens which press down on the heart and overwhelm the mind. This “ministry ” relationship can exist only with the commune that is prepared in the heart by the Lord Himself. Prayer, the silence of the soul, communing with Him, the one who speaks without words. Embracing the whole of the spirit and comforting the depths of the painful heart. So many songs have been written to parallel this sense of being. The one that brings this thought to a moment of conclusion and factual reality is “How Great Thou Art”. It is really an honor to be placed in a purposed life that brings hope to others.

Best

Dennis