Tightrope ministry
March 19th, 2007
For the last couple of years I have been feeling quite comfortable and settled in what I do. In my family life, my job and the ministry I do has all been rolling along smoothly. While this has been great and very stable, I have to admit that I miss that nervous excited feeling you get when you step out in faith and have to really trust God for the outcome.
I was sharing this with my wife on the weekend and the best way I could describe it was tightrope ministry. You know how you feel when you preach your first sermon, you have a Bible study at your house for the first time or you start some ministry that is way out of your comfort zone. You feel like a circus performer standing on the edge of the platform about to step out on a thin rope to hold you up!
You get nervous and you pray like crazy and hope that it will all work out well. Nine times out of ten it all works out, but you have to really press in to God in the lead up. Well I have to admit I don’t like the extra stress, but the nervous tension and really relying on God is something I miss lately.
Hmmm perhaps it is time to prayerfully set some more God sized goals and step out again.
Here is a great quote that really fits in with the tightrope ministry theme…
“Set God sized goals. Pursue God ordained passions. God after a dream that is destined to fail unless God intervenes” (Mark Batterson)