29/10/2024
To You Who Are In The Ministry
Please be reminded,
While it is true that busyness doesn't always mean productivity, it can also be very true that having a ministry doesn't always mean spirituality.
We are apt to think that when a person is being involved in ministries, he is becoming more spiritual. While this can be one of the many manifestations of growth coming from the desire to serve God, having a ministry doesn't guarantee spirituality.
You can be leading others while your own spirit you cannot control and lead.
You could be singing in the choir and yet not having a heart that is really praising God.
You could be teaching others while you yourself aren't learning from what you are teaching.
You could be winning souls but behind it is that subtle desire to be admired.
You could be preaching already but are failing to practice that which you preach.
You could be so busy doing that you forget, the ministry is also about "being."
You could look so spiritual with all your public ministry performances and yet so carnal within your private life's allegiances.
This is one of the most dangerous pitfalls of having a ministry: forgetting that the heartbeat of it is in its motives of glorifying God. And when the motive isn't right, anything done, no matter how beautifully they were performed, is but a mask hiding the reality of what is happening inside the heart.
What could be happening inside one unexamined heart while in the parade of its ministries?
The worst.
It could be at its worst state of self-deception believing that he is still pleasing God when the truth is, none of his works, when they go through the fire of God's furnace of testings, will count as gold but will be burned to nothingness as they were but impurities.
It could be at its darkest state of blindness towards its spiritual decay thinking he's still running on the race he was called to when in reality, he is competing carnally for an earthly trophy of men's applause. He could win it, but what gain will it be compared to a reward eternal?
It could be at its soul's scarcest drought, being deprived of the abundance of the real blessedness that comes from an intimate fellowship with his God. He is so busy with his accomplishments he forgot that the real accomplishment of one's soul is God Himself, not his fruitfulness, not his usability, not his legacy, but having the reward of each of life's unhurried moments alone with God.
It could be that person you actively see in church, it could be you.
It could be any one of us if we will not be careful to remind ourselves from time to time that just because you have a ministry doesn't mean you are living a life of spirituality.
Let's make it a rule to ourselves to always view our spiritual progress and productivity not by our accomplishments, but in the light of our intimacy towards the One whom we tend to forget to be the heartbeat of our ministry - that above all, we stay in love with our God.
Because anything that is done in love for God remains.
📖Meditations on the Book of 1Corinthians 3:12-15
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