The Timing

God consistently teaches me lessons that I must be very careful to listen for. Specifically, I love that I am a pastor. I enjoy people for the most part and I like the variety that this job (if you can even call it that) allows me to partake in regularly. On any given day I can, prepare for a sermon, prepare for a lesson, discuss business on the phone or at meetings, counsel with people, do some good old fashioned manual labor in the building, or be out and about running needed errands. Everything that I do actually matters and I can tell that it matters.
When you love something so much and you have so much invested in it and God has been showing up more regularly, then it is difficult when suddenly your hands are tied. Due to the passing of a friend, I am leaving all this weekend for Denver. I love to go there and it will be fun, but it came at a time when there is so very much going on with the church family. I feel bad about having to leave and then it occurred to me that this is exactly what God wants. The church must and has to function while I am gone, or I have missed the boat. So many people can step up and stretch from their experiences while I am away.
I am becoming more and more excited because I realize that the pressure of worrying about how everything will go is now off me, because it is HIS bride in the first place. How glorious it is that God will still show up whether I am there or not. Instead, I can go and be with my friend, his family, and help out. That is my work for the Kingdom this weekend. Meanwhile, Bethel Community will keep on keeping on because God is alive in our Church.