Proud to be a Replacement CBO 2011

So, this comes from the 2011 CBO Meditation Journal, on the theme Making Room taken from Luke 2:7.

Proud to be a Replacement

‘For I know the plans I have for you’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’ Jeremiah 29:11

I've never told this to anyone before, but I was never supposed to be a pastor, that was Kevin’s job. Growing up in church everyone always said that my friend Kevin would be a preacher and I would be on Broadway. I loved acting and singing so I was fine with that. I don’t know if being a pastor was ever Kevin’s plan, I never asked and he never said. Whatever the case it never happened, last I knew he was in the Navy.

Years passed and I began to feel a tug on my heart, and a feeling that maybe God wanted me to become a pastor. It was such a foreign concept that I spent some of my time in undergrad crawling toward it and the majority of the time running from it. It wasn’t until after graduation while I was living at home and working at a golf course that I finally relented. Now I have finished seminary, finally started the ordination process, and am looking for churches.

Maybe this is the path that I was always supposed to follow, but I tend to think that maybe it was Kevin’s and he chose something else and so God needed someone else and then chose me. Sometimes we only have to stop and give in so that God can make room in us so that we can make room for others.

+ In what ways do you need to give in so God can use you?

+ Have you ever felt that you were the replacement, how has God reassured you?

Peace and Love,
Pastor K