To all my fans (all 3 of you), I apologise for the lack of updates. Y’know how work is…
Been thinking of something recently..
Love makes a better master than duty.
I’ve always drawn a very clear line between work, ministry and my personal life. When I’m at work, I try not to do ministry stuff and vice versa. When I’m having personal time, well, you’ll know because you probably won’t be able to reach me at all. Work is work, ministry is ministry, personal life is personal life.
I will meet my deadlines, fulfill my responsibilities and do everything that’s absolutely necessary, or even more, just to get the job done, because it’s my responsibility. I have to do it.
This not only drives me, it keeps me sane. It keeps me sane knowing that I have zero emotional commitment in any of the things I do – including ministry. I love my CG because I have to. If they’re not in my CG, no obligations to. You see, loving really is a decision, for me, very much like an on-off switch. Very easy, very convenient.
And then I saw this quote (pretty interesting quotes off quotewhore on Tumblr), ‘Love makes a better master than duty’. That hit me straight in the heart. Duty makes me turn up for CG no matter what, love makes me turn up for my people no matter what. Duty ensures I complete all my follow-ups, love ensures I keep on following up, even after the follow ups. To spread the love of God to His people, well I guess you can say that was Jesus’ responsibility, but to die for us, that’s love. I can love, because Christ first loved us.
I tell you honestly, for a long time I’ve been asking myself if I really want to go all out in pastoral work. I’m pretty comfortable leading 10; in fact, I didn’t think I had the emotional capacity to do more than that. But there’s something I need to learn from this. And I owe it to Him, big time.
No longer doing things out of duty, but out of love. Gotta learn that.
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