It's just another manic Monday...

Well... here we are, back in the 'ol office.

Mondays are always so mixed up for me. This is usually because I didn't get enough sleep during the weekend. Or, it could be that over the weekend I ate so unhealthy that I can't believe my arteries haven't completely clogged. But sometimes it's because I encountered God in the worship service on Sunday and He has began working on some area (or multiple areas for that matter) of my life. Thus, I begin to wrestle with Him in an attempt to rightly understand the work He is doing and how it is to change my life.

This is the case today. God met me in the evening worship service (Tullian's installation service) last night and began working on my heart and mind. How did God meet me you may ask? Well, it happened when Dr. John Wood issued the charge to "Die." God began to speak to my heart urging me to take this charge seriously and personally. He reminded me that He was willing to go to that far for me and as such I should be willing to do no less.

Now, the perplexing part is not that God is working on me, for I am in desperate need of His work, but that as He does this will inevitably affect the ministry He has called me to here @ CRPC. For if I am to die to self that I might live to Christ, then it should be Christ alone that is visible in the Student Ministries. It should be His will that drives the ministry not my desires, dreams or ideas. It should be His Word that shapes us not my suggestions, or insight. It is His work and thus needs to be done His way and in His power, not mine. For I am but a tool in the master's hand.

However, this is precisely where God is doing His work. You see, I have a very strong, dynamic and outgoing personality. I love people! I enjoy meeting new people, hanging with friends, talking to people, gathering crowds and being the life of a party. This is both a blessing and a curse. The last thing I want is for anything to have my stamp on it. I don't want a growing ministry because of me (don't get me wrong, I want a growing ministry), but because of Christ. I desire nothing more than if I were to be marooned on a desert island for the rest of my life that the Student Ministries here would continue to grow and change the world. Why? Because Christ is central!

Therefore, I request your prayers; in fact, we all do here in the Student Ministries. We desire to decrease that Christ may increase. So, as we are planning and working, please pray that we are doing so according to the will of God, for His glory alone and by His grace. Pray that we don't push our agendas or attempt to do things just because we think we need to. This is the Lord's ministry and His students; we are but His instruments. Please pray that as God so chooses to use us that we would be a beautiful sound in His ears and an enticing and piercing melody to a deaf world.

For His Kingdom...