SNOW DAY

YES!  I remember as a kid hoping and praying for a snow day.  They never canceled school the night before. They would always wait to cancel it after you were wide awake and getting ready to go.  I would imagine our Principle pushing the button on his garage door then getting in to his 4 wheel drive truck with a snow plow and plowing his way to school.  Then saying, "aw it's not that bad"...  I hated that vision.  In my mind if I were Principle I would look out the window the night before and say, "Well it looks like it might snow... Better cancel school."  Then I would sleep in and everyone would like me...  Ha Ha Ha!

Now I am the pastor of a church and people will call the day before and tell me the weather forecast for the week and ask, "do you think we will have church?"  Now I know what that Principle goes through.

 I heard a story about a larger church where  it snowed pretty hard and the person who makes that decision canceled the services.  Well, some lovely couple took it upon themselves to disagree and drive a long distance to prove that they could have had Church.  They went to the decision makers house picked up their newspaper out of the box and hand deliver it to the front door.  Just to prove that the weather was not that bad.
This has never happened to me but if it would I would want to cancel them.

Their is a lack of trust in our leaders, in our decision makers.  Principle you better make the right decision...  Pastor you better make the right decision or we will prove you wrong.

In the secular world you can count on critics.  They lay and wait to find fault.  It seems as though if you bring the leader down, then when you make a mistake you have a reason not to take blame.  I have a friend who is a new this year High School Principle and he is struggling to try and please everyone.

In the church the secular world has crept in, no mercy and grace.  It is so sad when I see pastors being taken for granted.  In the past several years I have watched pastors get so frustrated with people that they have ended up leaving the ministry.  Sometimes people can be so cruel.  The secular world shows it's ugliness in the church.  No one in leadership is perfect just like no person is perfect.

What am I saying?  I guess it is,"All have sinned and fall short of the city of God."  And even though we are not perfect we still are trying to follow the Perfect One.

The subtitle of his blog is Ramblings and that is what this Pastor has done here... Rambled.

DESTINED FOR GREATNESS

What is it that will give you your 10 seconds of fame?  Saving someones life, achieving some great feat that will impress the world.  Will you be abducted by aliens and have a probing story?  How about winning the Powerball for 700 million dollars? What is it going to be?  Well that last one will not be me because I don't gamble.  Unless you call driving in my truck around all those people who think that they're vehicle has become a mobile phone booth. Other than that.

But back to the thought at hand, do you feel it inside you?  That thing that says you are going to do something that is so vital if you could just work it out.  If you could just wring it out of you everyone would see the beauty, the perfectly fit cog that makes the big wheel turn and that cog is you.

You know that God created us all with a special purpose.  We are a handmade, genuine laser cut puzzle piece that only goes one place and that piece completes a beautiful work of art that God had painted Himself.  God did that when he created us...  Very Cool Huh?

You know I have spent the majority of my life trying to impress people.  Titles seem to impress people.  PHD, Esquire, Professor, President.  All these demand respect.  I used to think that Pastor was a respected title but times have changed.  Oh maybe to some it still holds a little bit of reverence.  Not like it used too.

We can't stop there if we did we would be like so many others that believe it is man that we must impress, but it's not...  It is God.  The one who created the pretty picture and specifically made you a major part of it.  Be encouraged pastor's! God is so impressed with where you are.  Remember where you came from and your obedience it took to get where He wants you.  BE ENCOURAGED!