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No Stopping When God entrusted me with this ministry, He showed how important I was to Him. That means I am an active part of His plans, and that He wants me involved. I cannot afford to take my calling lightly, or to put anything day on hold while waiting on more knowledge and resources. I want to use who I am and what I have to do the best I can while I can for as long as I can. God has given me an opportunity, and in spite of the fact I have problems and struggles (God knows about all of them), I have to do all I can to reach those God called me to help. I spent many years in a ministry where problems and struggles were a sign of weakness or a lack of faith. Christians were supposed to exist on a higher plateau where sickness, weakness and sin did not exist. I never made it there and neither did anyone else, but God used that ministry to mold me into the minister that I am today. He helped me reach a place where I could really help somebody; something I am not positive I was ever able to do before. I sometimes think about a pastor friend of mine. His younger brother is in prison. His older brother died acutely and his nephew (his brother’s son) died a week later of the exact same illness. A few years later his dad passed away, his wife divorced him and his only son was sent to Iraq. But through it all, he continued to preach and minister to others. He toughed it out, therefore his ministry grew. You see, God doesn’t excuse us because things get tough. Deeper struggles make our survival that much more crucial. This is not just about us and whether or not we can make it. It’s all about God and what He is doing through us. More than anything else, I want His work to make it. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God 2 Corinthians 1:4 Edmund Brown |