WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU'RE DISAPPOINTED IN YOUR MINISTRY?


 BIBLE JOURNEY: 1 SAMUEL 8:6

But when they said, “Give us a king to lead us,’ this displeased Samuel, so he prayed to the Lord.”

Did you experience disappointments in the ministry? What were those? And what did you do?

Samuel was displeased when the people ask him to appoint a king to lead them. For long years of serving the nation of Israel as a judge, the people still didn’t understand that throughout their journey from Egypt to Canaan, God has been protecting them from their enemy just like a King protecting his people. What displeased him was the fact that the people of Israel would like to turn from a theocracy to a monarchial system of government. It’s an obvious display of transferring their trust to human leadership for the wrong motive.  

Being a minister for sixteen years, I have also experienced so many disappointments. Hindi lang sa fellow-leaders maging sa mga members. You know the feeling that you preach and teach the Word of God but some members keep on doing their old ways. Nakakapagod na rin that you’re teaching repentance or turn from your old ways pero mababalitaan mo pa rin si kapatid na walang absent sa kanilang  “session sa sugal.” Sa kabila ng pagtuturo mo na “huwag sumamba sa dios-diosan” ay mababalitaan mo na lang na si kapatid pa ang ngangunguna sa pagpaparada ng mga santo o rebulto at nangunguna sa padasal.

This verse has shown me that when I experience disappointments in the ministry, the best thing to do is to PRAY. When Samuel prayed to the Lord, the Lord comforted him. As it says in 1 Samuel 8:7, “And the Lord told him, ‘Listen to all that the people are saying to you, it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected ME as their king.”

The same God will comfort us whenever we experienced disappointments in the ministry. When we preach and teach but people still insist on what they think is right. They didn’t reject us, they rejected God.


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