Ministry

Here's a thought for the day.

When you serve in ministry, any kind of ministry who are you serving? Are you serving the kids in the nursery or their parents? Are you serving the congregation members you preach to or the elder board you answer to? Are you serving the people who come into your shelter or community center or the donors who help keep your doors open?

Spoiler alert guys- you're not serving any of them.

Or at least you shouldn't be.

Colossians 3:23
"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord not for human masters..."

We're really good at focusing on the 'work at it with all your heart' part (shout out to the parents with teenagers who like to quote this verse when the kids don't do their chores LOL) but we forget about the fact that it's the Lord we're serving. Oh sure we say it, "I'm doing this for God" but do we mean it?

Our focus so often is on people. The people we're helping, the people who we answer to, even the people we fail or the ones who hurt us when really our focus should be on the Lord. After all if our ministry isn't ultimately serving Him then what's the point?

I don't know what your ministry is or who you're serving but today I just want to challenge you, whether things are going great or horribly, shift your focus. Remember when things are going well to give God the glory. Remember when things are going badly that He will sustain you and see you through. And remember at all times that it's His ministry and He's just placed you there for a season but He is the one you're ultimately serving.

May God bless you in your ministry today, whatever that may be.

P.S. A ministry can be a stay-at-home mom or praying for your neighbors, that's just as valid as the pastor on T.V. or the missionary overseas. See when we remember who we're serving in our ministry something amazing happens. We stop ranking what position is most important and we start remembering that God uses us all differently and that one's not better then the other because all of us are serving the one, true King and that's what really matters- not the titles or the salary or anything else. Just Who we serve.