Ministry Burning a Hole in My Pocket

January 11th, 2008

I don’t save money. As soon as I get a few bucks, I know exactly where, what, and when I will get it the item at the top of the list…
I realized today- ministry is like this for me. I love staying busy. I love projects. I love helping, serving, and teaching. You know, the “important” things. Dang. My depravity leaks out again.

Thank God for a good friend, who said, “Do you think ministry won’t be there, when your kids are older?” I struggle not doing more in ministry now, because I love serving with my husband and being on the “front lines,” so to speak.

I am passionate about my children, my home, my husband, yet I get bored. Where is the next “big thing?” The next project, the next curriculum to write? Seriously, when I get bored, I write curriculum. It is hard to see that one as sin, because I am immersed in the Word. But, I am starting to see more about how discontent I can grow as my selfish ambition sides with my passion.

Is it enough for me that my savior delights in me? Psalm 41 11By this I know that you delight in me: my enemy will not shout in triumph over me.12But you have upheld me because of my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

Work or Worship?
Selfish Ambition or peaceful contentment?


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    Colossians 3:23-25 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

    As I ponder my life, I find myself in disbelief. Is life really this fast and busy? Where are those precious moments, where time is supposed to freeze?
    Here I am, amazed at the blessings and calling I experience. Jesus is setting on the throne of my heart and I am running around chasing four children–yet am I worshiping Christ in it?
    Do I stop long enough to gaze at Jesus and set in His presence?
    Or do I just work? Why do I work? Is there a point to stewardship, time management, lists, schedules? Isn’t life just setting goals and completing the tasks?

    Welcome to my world of digging at these questions. Join me in the journey to understand why we work and the point of it all.
    I desire to give God glory, to understand more at a heart level, what God wants me to get to, true worship. Not just worship thru song, but my whole life, summed up as Worship. Is yours?

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