While "The Frustration of Being Human" may sound like a funny joke, this saying has been stuck in my head for the last three weeks. In the last few weeks I have hit a virtual barrier in the young adult ministry. Some would tell me to be content with where I am and to refine my style before pressing on. This is well and good for some but I feel like the two spies in Numbers. The poor guys come back with a good report, see the vision, they even got a taste of the vision but then because everyone else was content with where they were, these two poor guys had to walk around the desert another 40 years. These two guys, God's exceptional servants had to wait for the rest of the body to catch up to where they were 40 years earlier. Now back to the title. The frustration of being human for me these last two weeks has been that even though I see the vision God has for His young adults in this area, no one seems to want to stand with me. I take that back, no one but my wife seems to want to stand with me. I pray for God to open mens' eyes but I in myself cannot get them to open their eyes to what is staring them in the face. This is my frustration, but then God tells me to be patient. He tells me that I will one day see the vision come to pass, one day the church will enter the fields of endless harvest. Until then, like the two spies, I have to wait and try to become the man God wants me to be.
More to come...
