PASTOR – A TEDIOUS JOB

Being a Pastor is not easy. Easily, it is one of the toughest vocations to say the least. It simply calls for a very different kind of skill set. The work itself is testing a tiring continuously.

The LORD has raised up some very fine and wonderful people to be His shepherds and caretakers. As in any place, there are bad and unfaithful people too.

Recently, I came across a beautiful write-up on being a Pastor. Please read it.

A Pastor

No one knows What a Pastor hears, What he sees,The secrets he must keep, The temptations he encounters, The tears he sheds, The sorrow he endures, The loneliness he manages, The bitterness he experiences, The lies levelled against him by some of the people he serves! How he accommodates those who pretend they love him but behind, they destroy him.

How he tries to live more than a (normal and average) human, The lack he suffers, The discrimination he must not react to, The accusations he has to mutely endure, The expectations he strives to cope with.

Even a fellow Pastor does not know what the other goes through.He is alive for God, and yet he lives for Us!

A Pastor and the Pastorhood is what no one can fully understand or comprehend! The Pastorhood is “A Mystery”! The Pastor is a mystery too!A mystery is incomprehensible…

So ALL (we) can do for him is do pray for him. A day must not pass without standing in the gap for him! Wish him well, and endeavour to understand him! Make him happy at least,For an unhappy Pastor is a disaster to the Church of God! 

Respect your Pastor…Pray for your Pastor…Encourage your Pastor…Celebrate your Pastor…Stop Judging Pastors because of what you heard or saw…

God bless you as you honour your Pastor.