So, there I was sitting in my “corner” getting ready to write (I am after all the Pastor and this is called ‘Pastor’s corner) when it struck me that in the flesh there were many other things that I would rather be doing than sitting and writing a Pastor’s corner. And I wondered, in my own emotional way, just exactly what the saints do with all the Pastor’s corners I write. Now, I am not complaining mind you about the fact that I write Pastor’s corners, but I wondered in my self just exactly what people do with the thoughts which the Holy Ghost and I produce for the benefit of the people every week.
Hebrews 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
When I stop to consider in my own life all of the sermons that I have heard, all the books I have read, and even all the messages that I have myself written — including Pastor’s Corners — it seems to me that I am as much a victim of the disease of “what was that?” as everybody else.
James 1:23-25 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
It is so tragic to think that we move from point to point in life and yet somehow keep missing the point of life. If the thought is too hard, or the saying to long, or the meaning a little obscure, we will willingly pass by that which God gives us to eat in hopes of finding someone else’s kitchen cooking food that we find more personally pleasing and emotionally satisfying.
Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Whatever else we do today, we must at least do one thing. We must LISTEN WITH OUR HEARTS and not just with our minds.
Original Copyright: © Anthony J. Massotti Th.M., Th.M. 4/16/2000