Dear brothers, God does not need those with extraordinary gifts. They exist as a gift to us to encourage and spur us on in the trenches of pastoral ministry. Attend these excellent conferences. Listen and learn. Be fed by the Word these gifted men preach for your benefit. Yet, do not envy them. Do not allow their unique gifts to make you question that God has gifted you to do the precise work He desires to be done in the exact place you find yourself pastoring today.
Make no mistake, to the one much is given, much is required. These men who faithfully serve us at these conferences carry with them a burden few of us know. I think if we truly knew the level of that burden they carry, we would not envy them quite so much. In fact, it would make us even more grateful for them and their service to us.
Bloom where God has planted you, dear brother. He makes no mistakes in the placement of us in ministry! Pray, not for extraordinary gifts, fellow pastor, but for a grave earnestness in the faithful, gospel trench work in which you engage today. God will bear fruit.Read the rest.
Amen.
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