Pastor, have you ever felt exhausted, as if everyone looks at you and expects you to do magic to solve all their problems?In this video, Russell Moore invites us to remember that we have been called to fidelity.
Brethren, we are not healers.
- I say this because many years ago I heard a pastor say.
- “You know.
- I feel like a healer.
- Because I come to people in their situations and crises.
- I pray for them.
- I do what I have to do.
- I visit them.
- I get up and preach my sermons.
- And I feel like everyone expects me to have some kind of magic in every area of my life.
And when I heard this pastor say that, what I heard was exhaustion, and this was the kind of exhaustion that happens when we hope to be the vehicle of God’s grace and the building up of the kingdom of God, rather than the Spirit acting through us. it’s a feeling of exhaustion, tiredness, disappointment when we see of the people we dedicate our lives to, when we see departments that we dedicate our lives to, and they don’t seem to grow, we feel like we’re failing, because we don’t have the magic and the ingredients.
But the scriptures do not call us to magic. They call us to faithfulness and tell us that the fruits that Jesus brings often happen long after we leave. It really amazes me when I look at the New Testament. Everyone seems to have a messianic complex, except the Messiah himself. He seems to be capable. Get away from the crowd, see God’s plan, see God’s plan, and rejoice in this kind of quiet.
I want to encourage you, pastors, and leaders, that when we move forward and progress toward fidelity, and as we try to fulfill the ministry entrusted to us, let us not do so by magic, we do not do so by our own abilities or our own. Gifts. And don’t despair when we look around and say, “I don’t see what I expected to see. “
It is the power of God, it is the gospel of Jesus Christ, it is not magic.