Am I Getting Through?

There are times when every one of us wonders if we are making a difference, or getting through. These days with weekly shrinking attendance numbers at church services, it is a constant challenge for God, pastors and church leaders to capture peoples’ attention. More and more younger people it seems, are distracted by the world, and it’s demands and temporary fulfillment. The elderly are decreasing in numbers, as their mobility and ability to attend is diminishing. So, the question arises from those of us who are carrying the torch. Are we spinning our wheels as we try to remain obedient in spreading the Gospel? People who don’t care or don’t believe because science hasn’t proven or disproven God’s existence, are wandering around without hope or purpose. There seems to be a culture of, well, when I’m dead, I’m dead, so I’ll do whatever makes me feel good while I’m here. Unfortunately, there are many who attend service, listen to the message, ask for prayer, and all of this falls off of them come Monday morning.

Well, I want to encourage you all, that God’s NOT dead. He’s alive and well, and is the driving force in each of us who reach a wall of doubt, then get pushed through. He’s the one who put people in our lives so we could minister and witness to them before they passed onto glory. He is the one who assembled every praise and worship team that ever existed, and wrote every lyric as love prayers to the believer and non-believer alike. He’s the one who instructs each of us to minister to the young, and old alike, to those in church and to those who have been hurt by church. He is the one who instilled a pastor’s heart into the heart of a young child who may be the one who ministers to hundreds, without fanfare.

Are we effective, or making a difference? Well, God will let us know when we each meet Him face to face. Until then those of us who walk in faith, must keep the faith. Keep offering Him to our community, even when we don’t think we can. Someone, somewhere needs the gift that Jesus offers, and we need to be the bearer of gifts from above. My pastors, and my God captured me, and made a profound difference in my life. The least I can do is pay it forward. The most we can do is our part to share Him with the world. In this we will all be more effective than we will ever know.

Mike Shindruk

www.mastershandministry.blogspot.ca