One of my favorite movies is The Guardian. It is about the coast guard: the training, lifestyle, and mission of the people that serve our great country in that way. I like their motto, "So others may live." What an awesome honor that they have to save people from death. While yes, it is a literal sense of saving people from death in the open sea for me it transfers to me saving people "so others may live" in Christ.
This makes me think, as a Christian, as a future minister of the most sacred Word of God, do I take the calling that God has placed on my life as serious as the honorable men and women in the coast guard? Not only that, but do I take my studies as serious as a medical student or a law student? As a future pastor, will I work as hard as a CEO (not try to be a CEO or run the church like it, but will I work as hard as them)?
What am I trying to say by this?
I don't know ... sometimes I feel like I just do things so I can make a name for myself. Sometimes I feel like I want to be so busy so I can have something to do and not be bored. Sometimes I feel like I need to do everything so I can make friendships. Sometimes I feel like I need to be superman and do everything or it won't be done. That is not godly thinking! It is thinking that comes from my fallen and depraved/insecure nature.
So, what is the point?
Slow down ...
I think that's what God is showing me ... just "slow down" and "wait on Me." We have an awesome opportunity to seek God and to learn about Him, but do we distract ourselves from doing that by staying so busy in doing the "work of the Lord."
Let it be said of me that I loved God more than I love what I did in the Lord's name.
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