Monday’s Ministry Encouragement: Written to encourage you, my friend in ministry, to be refreshed and renewed as we live for Christ and look toward the Bema.
“We can endure anything because God knows the rest of the story!” This thought came to my mind as I was preaching from 1 Timothy 4.
Ministry life has many blessed days, but they are accompanied at times by difficult, complex days (months or years) that may tempt you to bail out, to quit, to move on to another place, get discouraged, sulk or become bitter.
Men, “the story” is Jesus. He is your story. Your ministry life is His story and will always be His story. He is writing your story. And, He is the rest of the story! So consider Him who endured from sinners such hostility against Himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted (Hebrews 12:3).
There’s a day coming when we will enter into His presence whether by the Rapture or death. And when that final page of the last chapter is written, “the end” will just be the beginning of a sinless story of eternal glory!
If you are in one of those rough chapters in ministry, listen and take to heart Paul’s words to young Timothy, For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God (1 Timothy 4:10).
“We can endure anything because God knows the rest of the story!”
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