Well, here I am again, not posting after several days.
Wednesday’s topic is usually “How to be an offering.” I need to apply this to my own life as well, and I think the number and frequency of my blog posts attests to today’s thoughts.
Laying myself bare to anyone reading, I have realized lately that I, in general, am inconsistent. God has called us (especially those of us in leadership positions), to be full of integrity, vision, and purpose. God has called us to offer ourselves fully to His work. I’m struggling with all of the above. It is exciting for me to feel God working in my life, but it is also hard to wholly surrender my life and my job to Him. I would ask that anyone reading would pray for me, so that my love for God’s work, and my consistency in what I do would be a pleasing offering to Him.
We serve an amazing God.
Yesterday’s service had one point that really hit me…but I’ll get to that later.
The songs we did were:
Bread of Heaven (a modern version of the hymn, “Guide me, Oh Thou Great Jehovah)
Forever
Hope of the Nations
Shout to the Lord
Jesus, You Are My Life
One thing that we must always be aware of is to never assume anything. I assumed that the guest pastor would remember to switch his mute button on his microphone, so I left it muted. I then told the sound tech that he would have to mute the pastor on the board when he wasn’t speaking. Unfortunately for me, I assumed wrong about the pastor remembering to switch his mute button.
We had no volume on the pastor through the prayers, confession, and words of insititution. Thankfully we have a small sanctuary so that it wasn’t a huge disaster. And thankfully he told me afterword that he appreciated me catching him during the offering and letting him know his mic wasn’t on.
But…getting to the point. During the sermon, Pastor Helling spoke of all of the things we try to satisfy ourselves with. Only one thing can satisfy: Jesus, the Bread of Life. I hope I can remember those words throughout the coming days.