I am working hard today and tomorrow because as of tuesday I will heading to Kansas for the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection’s Leadership Institute.
I am very excited for this sacred time to fellowship, learn, and renew myself with other people in pastoral ministry, lay ministry, and other ministries as well. This has reminded me of a core truth that I was taught long ago and have vowed to let myself be content with.
You are never too old to learn more.
No matter how old you are, how many years you have been doing what you do in occupation or anything of that nature you are never too old to learn.
In fact it is the highest of priorities for me.
I love me some Jesus. Truly I do and I can honestly tell you that my relationship with Christ has deepened so much over the last couple of months and even years. Loving Jesus for me is not enough. It has to be my passion too. Not just in ministry but for myself.
Sometimes I think we get so caught up in minister to others that we forget that we need to cultivate growing in our own life as well.
John Wesley when he was an anglican priest had a desire to be holy and so he did things to cultivate this in his life. His woke early in the morning and prayed and then read the scriptures, did ministry for the poor and tithed to the church.
Why? Because he wanted this. He desired to be all that Christ called him to be. On a daily basis he put himself in situations that cultivated holiness.
It’s so important that we do that. That we want this, because if we don’t who will?
Nobody.
There is nothing that you should want more than to deepen your intellectual understanding of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit and by doing that you will begin to understand on a completely different level how that affects who you are.
Never be content with what you know. Have a holy discontent and push yourself to always be learning more and more so that you can do more for the kingdom of God.
So what are you going to do this week to learn more?