I don’t know what the ministry-bug looks like but I
do know what it feels like and I also know there is no cure for it. Oh, there
may be times when you are attacked and because of those attacks you briefly
think, “I’m-just-not-going-to-do-this-any-longer.” But inevitably you feel that stirring in your
soul and before you know it you’re doing it again. Once again, you are
completely engrossed, obsessed, and occupied with spreading the Good News and
the love of Jesus with others. You are down on your knees asking God, “Fill me
Lord with Your Spirit. Send me where You would have me go. Speak through me;
saturate me with Your Being. Allow me to see others as You see them. Teach me
to love others as You love them; use all I am for Your kingdom’s cause; let all
my passion always be for Your glory. Amen.”
I confess the ministry-bug term is not original with
me. My pastor used it last night in his sermon and I thought, “What a great
term; I love it; I’ve got to use that!”
The point I’d like to get across to you today is
that there is no such thing as the average Christian life. You’re either living
a Spirit-filled-life or you aren’t. Going to church on Sunday morning, occasionally
reading your Bible and quickly saying your prayers before you fall into bed
every night may seem adequate to you but it is not the Spirit-filled life that
God seeks for you. It is not the abundant life God has in store for you. There
is SO MUCH MORE and it lies outside the walls of your church building.
Our Lord desires to have an intimate-walking-talking
relationship with each of us. Open the door to His presence and His power. Be
filled with His wisdom, courage, and strength. Become fully dependent upon Him.
When you invite Jesus into your life daily to live
His life in you and through you may expect the remarkable. Expect the abundant
life. Expect to be bitten by the ministry-bug and expect an exciting adventure
and complete joy…even through the trials.
“You see that a person is considered
righteous by what they do and not by faith alone. As the body without the
spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead”. James 2:24, 26, NIV
God bless you!!
