Outdoor Truths: Aiming Outdoorsmen Toward Christ Oct. 11th
Gary Miller ~ outdoortruths.org
I’m one of those guys who could never say no to anything that I thought was honorable or worthwhile. In my Christian life, that meant that I was supposed to be involved in everything that the church had going. It didn’t matter if I was gifted in that area or not, if there was a need, I thought (and in some ways was told) that I had to step up. Most of the time, I did. As I got older, got married, and had children, I learned that I couldn’t do everything and still give myself to my family. At first there was guilt until I realized it was false guilt. It was not put there by God. God never expected me to jump into everything no matter how desperate the need was at the expense of my godly responsibility to my family and to my own spiritual needs. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that God will never call you to do something that seems wrong for you. But what I am saying is learn what you have been gifted to do, who your ministry is to, and apply yourself to do it with excellence. And when others ask you to do something that is outside of that, learn to kindly say no. If you don’t there will come a time when you’ll look back and find out that you actually did say no – to those people, family, and things that God had already put in your life.
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