Doubtlessly, everyone that is, is in the service of some sort. There are mainly three zones where each one of us are recruited. Below are the brief analysis of these three zones.
SACRED: There are people who are called priests, pastors, evangelists, and teachers or, to say, ministers in totality, who have left their comfort zone, family, friends, profession or an offer of a secure future only to serve God with everything they own.
They acknowledged the call of God and realized the indispensability to be in the mission field. This realization, first, requires commitment towards and faith in God, second, burning compassion towards perishing souls. They could have been anything but not minister though. Anyone looking to be well settled in any form, ministry is the last option that any sane person would like to choose without the intense call from God. For anyone, with a small degree, skill or technicality, it’s possible to make more living than today’s an average Christian minster. Despite their exceptional degree/profession/skill which would have brought them the best that world can offer today, many have walked away from such offers and deliberately chose to serve the Lord in different measures. They completely depend on God for everything they need. They fight the daily battle of life by faith with an armor called prayer.
SACRED: There are people who are called priests, pastors, evangelists, and teachers or, to say, ministers in totality, who have left their comfort zone, family, friends, profession or an offer of a secure future only to serve God with everything they own.
They acknowledged the call of God and realized the indispensability to be in the mission field. This realization, first, requires commitment towards and faith in God, second, burning compassion towards perishing souls. They could have been anything but not minister though. Anyone looking to be well settled in any form, ministry is the last option that any sane person would like to choose without the intense call from God. For anyone, with a small degree, skill or technicality, it’s possible to make more living than today’s an average Christian minster. Despite their exceptional degree/profession/skill which would have brought them the best that world can offer today, many have walked away from such offers and deliberately chose to serve the Lord in different measures. They completely depend on God for everything they need. They fight the daily battle of life by faith with an armor called prayer.
SOCIAL/SECULAR: Then there are others who work for secular/social cause; like working with Good Samaritan organizations or NGOs etc. They are the people who see the agony of the world more than their own selfishly driven desires for fleshly fulfillment. They are comparatively more sensitive towards pain of fellow human being or animal. They are the ones who are working with lepers with immense amount of vulnerability, mental patients with much patience, abhorrently wounded or injured with hiding their hesitance for the same, orphan children with enormous love and care, trafficking with an unease that humanity has undergone, prisoners and prostitutes with equal jeopardy but an empathetic heart, eco-care with concern for the earth and the future generation, animal care with an heart of compassionate human and many more such noble causes. The volume of compassion, empathy, courage, love that is required for such works is little/much more than that which is required for making a simple prayer, donation or like, share in a FB/WA post and is undoubtedly rare in our times. In some cases, they get paid for this and most do it voluntarily with little or no support support.
SELF: Then there are people who work for self. They are obsessed with self. They study well (sometimes bribe), get good job, make extravagant money and spend all on themselves. They might sometimes behave philanthropically but it’s only to get tax exemptions or for display of own name but never ample and always selfishly driven. They are capitalist in nature, reaching no heights, amassing no amount of money, buying no amount of swag is ever enough and their competition mindedness is driven by greed, pride, and jealousy which are wickedly insatiable.
These people live to serve neither God nor humanity but themselves. This is, in fact, the root to many a problem in our world today. They depend on their own strength and money.
These people live to serve neither God nor humanity but themselves. This is, in fact, the root to many a problem in our world today. They depend on their own strength and money.
In short, we can’t, of course, deny that there are invaders, who have entered sacred or secular/social realm with unethical motives; however, no field is without exception though. There are others who earn money and support ministers. Evidently, there are more today who know Christ run some of the biggest humanitarian works across globe.
"I would rather serve the King of this world, my God, than to serve the world as a king (emphasis added)" so said the renowned evangelist Billy Graham when he was asked to become president of U.S.
Serving God is a privilege and the suffering but not without divine joy that comes along is incomparable. I, personally know a few who have renounced the highest posts and huge pay are in the ministry today.
Serving God, indirectly, is service of humanity as well because the best you can ever find as human is not food, shelter or cloths but Salvation of Soul. This sharing of the message of salvation is only possible through a gospel carrier or a minister.
Moreover, the greater part of the work of a minster is not just pulpit preaching but also acting as a good Samaritan to a person in need, though be it financial, emotional or spiritual.
Serving God is a privilege and the suffering but not without divine joy that comes along is incomparable. I, personally know a few who have renounced the highest posts and huge pay are in the ministry today.
Serving God, indirectly, is service of humanity as well because the best you can ever find as human is not food, shelter or cloths but Salvation of Soul. This sharing of the message of salvation is only possible through a gospel carrier or a minister.
Moreover, the greater part of the work of a minster is not just pulpit preaching but also acting as a good Samaritan to a person in need, though be it financial, emotional or spiritual.
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