I love days like this. I started off my morning ministering to my home congregation. God gave me a message and I had the privilege to present it, and every time I do that, there’s a little part of me that still can’t quite believe that this is what I get to do for a living. I get to bring messages from God’s Word to a group of people I genuinely love and enjoy, and they love me back. I am truly blessed, but this day was even better. I left right after the service and drove about four and a half hours north to minister at another wonderful church with my art ministry. I had been with this church twice before and every time I minister to them, it’s a blessing. 

Once again I have to pinch myself. I was the kid that no one wanted to be around and now as an adult, people actually pay to have me come to them and do what I’ve dreamed of doing since childhood, making pictures and telling stories. I sometimes almost have to pinch myself because I have a hard time believing I can be so blessed. The Lord is literally showing me what He created me for, and I am overjoyed. 

Right now I am sitting in a hotel room a few miles from the church. I will admit, right now at this moment, I am exhausted, but it’s the best kind of exhausted there is. It’s the kind of exhausted when you feel like you’ve been faithful. That you went out there and did the best you could.  Now that the work is done, I will be able to rest and sleep the kind of sleep that comes when a goal has been reached. 

Tomorrow, I will start to think of the next message, and I will likely start writing, Lord willing. I will read the passage before I leave the hotel and pray and meditate on it as I take the longish drive home. What can I say? The ministry comes with a weekly deadline. I don’t mind at all, as a matter of fact, I love it. Each new message brings with it the opportunity to delve deeper into the Word of God and hopefully come a little closer to the Lord. As I get ready to shut the laptop down for the night, I am reminded of a quote from the Westminster Catechism, which says, “Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.” This is what ministry feels like to me. I will say I missed my family tonight, and I do long for the day when we can do these things together more, but I am a blessed man and this…this was a great day.