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Friday, February 02, 2007

Seemeth it but a small thing?


by Pastor Jim Brown

Horizon Christian Fellowship

(www.calvarychapel.com/hcfw)






Numbers 16:8-9 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi: 9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?
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We are all (if we are a child of God) ministers of the Most High God!

Ministering for God in Numbers 16 means to serve Him, to worship Him and to attend to Him and His desires. Contextually, God through Moses is asking the Levites (and especially Korah) if they think it is a small thing to be ministering to GOD by ministering to His people.

We are also ministers to God and to be ministers (servants) to His people...do we take this responsibility lightly? “Oh, it’s no big thing” we might say, or “I don’t really like these people but God knows my heart” might be our defense, but the reality is that we are ambassadors for Christ: We Represent Jesus Christ to the people of this world...and so the question must be to all of us – “What do the people see”?

In evaluating our lives, do the people see someone FULL of GRACE and TRUTH (John 1:17)? Do they see someone who is more interested in ministering to the hearts and lives of those around them than anything petty variance they might find disagreeable in someone. Do they see someone who continually shows Grace as they have been shown grace and extends forgiveness as they have been forgiven and who prays for people instead of judging them or being critical of them?

In Ruth 4:15 we see that the kinsman (who is a picture of our nearer and greater redeemer – Jesus) is a restorer of life and a nourisher of our old age – do we seek to share God’s love in such a way that people’s lives are restored and nourished? The minister who seeks to restore and nourish lives is the one walking in the center of God’s will – he/she is the one who is the true minister for Jesus.

What is God’s heart? His heart is about people – their hearts, their lives...their eternity!

Pray with me that our hearts see that ministry is about people and their relationship with Jesus and nothing more...

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Email me! Pastor Jim (pj-brown@sbcglobal.net)

posted by Pastor Jim @ 10:38 AM

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