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My Ministry, My Calling
But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. Titus 4:5
Saturday morning I woke up with a fresh passion of purpose. After telling my husband Paul that I would make him French Toast for breakfast, I excitedly began sharing with him my desire to begin my next new thing. He sat there and quietly listened, nodding and smiling at the right times. I told him that this new bright and shiny thing was truly my calling. This is what I felt the Lord was putting on my heart to do. Yes, I admit it, I even drug the Lord into this one. I would find such fulfillment in this, I argued. After my long drawn out speech there was finally silence as I waited for what he would say about my ‘new calling’. He just looked up at me and patiently said, “Right now, your calling is to make me French Toast.” I almost laughed but then thought that maybe I didn’t explain myself well enough. I thought to myself, “He must not understand what I am telling him.” I went on to explain how I had come across the same scripture two times in as many days to confirm the spiritual influence of my decision and convince him of the same. He just looked up and softly said, “Why don’t you go and write that scripture in syrup on my French Toast.” I must admit, I did not take offense to his reply, you see, my husband is in a ‘next new thing-coma’. He has faithfully stood by me year after year, time after time as my number one fan through each new endeavor I have started. This faithful man is a bit tired.
Webster’s dictionary defines the Type A personality as, “a term used to describe people who are driven, hard-working, busy, and impatient.” In the past twelve years my husband has stood by me while I started and failed at numerous home business ideas. Many are much too embarrassing to mention here. When I decide to do something I don’t do it half way. I run the whole Boston marathon, buying every book on the market on the subject, spending hours researching and trying to learn all I can about the topic. Infomercials are marketed towards people like me. This is one of the many reasons I thank God for my husband. Each time I run full speed ahead towards the next bright and shiny thing that distracts me, he has always been the one to reel me back in, to take off my rose colored glasses and gently remind me of the Godly assignment the Lord has placed in my life right now.
I am not sure whether it is because I was raised in the 80’s and heard so often in the 90’s that the American woman can have it ALL. By this the they mean the fulfilling life of both family AND a full time career…mmm hmmm right. Or if it is just my Type A’ personality rearing its ugly head, with a little bit of the curse of Eve thrown in for good measure. Regardless of the reasons, I constantly can get sidetracked from the ministry that the Lord has called me to, being a wife to my husband Paul and a mother to our two daughters and two sons. This is truly the most influential, significant, momentous, life changing, valuable and fulfilling ministry I could be called to, period. So why is it that I continue to want to do anything else but sometimes?!?
The above scripture speaks to my heart, ‘Be watchful in all things,’ I must be on guard, nothing should distract my attention or draw me away from this blessed assignment. Yet almost daily I must keep my spirits’ peripheral vision blinded so as not to wander. This verse from that precious hymn ‘Come thou fount of every blessing’, ‘Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love’ touches my heart for this very reason. The scripture above ends with a charge to keep from the Lord, ‘..fulfill your ministry’. This is not a suggestion this is a command. This scripture explains that my ministry is to evangelize or to teach, to endure both the trials and the blessings of my beloved position, my true calling. These things are to be carried out unto completion. I must be reminded of this so often. This assignment is one that I don’t take lightly, yet one that the world continually tries, and often times succeeds in distracting me from. Thankfully my husband and my four children are the best anti-distraction tools in my Savior’s hands. This morning making my family French Toast is a tool in God’s hands, to reel me back in to my ministry, my calling…well, at least for now.
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