Today marks 38 years for me serving as a pastor. I certainly didn’t see this coming when I set my sights on college and a career afterwards. But God had other plans for me – and He won.
I’d like to take just a moment to share with you what is perhaps the most important thing I have learned over all those years. No matter what knowledge I have acquired, no matter how deep my convictions and beliefs, no matter what experience I have gained, no matter how strong my commitment, I will always need the Lord just as much as I did the very first day I came to know Him. I need Him in this moment as much as I did 38 years ago.
I need Him to remind me of what I know. I need Him to make His truth fresh, “living” bread instead of stale platitudes. I need Him for the wisdom and the inspiration to apply what I know. I need Him to show me how little all I know actually is, and how much more there is to what I think I know.
I am perfectly fine with this reality. In fact, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Because even though I am always going to need Him, I am also always going to have Him. He will always be with me and in me. And as He has faithfully done for 38 years, I am totally confident that my God shall continue to supply all my needs according to His unsearchable riches in Christ Jesus.
The combination of my neediness and His faithfulness is the DNA of the priceless relationship I have with Him today.
Something I am taking the moments of today to consider.
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