My Testimony
I want to share a bit of my own testimony today, as we close out this week dealing with difficult people.
I was 16 when I felt called to ministry. I would watch our minister preach and lead the church services and I just had this overwhelming feeling that I had to do that. But in those years, and onto my late teens and even my early 20s, I was very bad with people. In fact I had very poor people skills, and I remember saying to myself "I'll be a lecturer in theology, sure- but I don't want to be a pastor, because people are stupid." I even remember once telling my folks that one day I would preach a sermon series called "People Are Stupid." That's how bad it was.
How God Changes Us
Then at age 28 I finally decided to take the plunge and enter the ministry. As I stood before the Benoni Methodist circuit to share my call to preaching, I remember saying that I felt like Jonah – that I’d been running from my call, but now was the time to begin! Read or listen to this full devotion on my Patreon page here – for a monthly amount of your choice.
Paul's warning to the widows about idleness and slander is a warning to all of us about holding part of our lives back from Christ.