No, I don't play the lottery and I don't have very much money. Rags to riches is my spiritual transformation. As I start being a "full time pastor" in July it still seems a little surreal. When I think back to who I was before Jesus saved me I can't help but to laugh that God has turned that filthy ragged boy into a pastor.
He can, indeed, do it all. All of my relatives joke that "I was the last one they thought would ever go into the ministry." I have to agree with them. The grace of God does more than make us feel good and does more than "give us stuff."
Titus 2 tells us that it is the "grace of God" that appeared and "trains us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age," .... Jesus came to "purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works." God's grace has appeared in the gospel- it is what trains us for godly lives, makes us like Jesus, and makes us zealous for good works! Titus 2:11-14
The fact that I will start as a Pastor in July is in no way a testament of myself or how well I have done for myself or any of those things... It is a testament to the grace of God. I am thankful.
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