The authorship of the gospel of Matthew 9:37 says it best – “The harvest is plenteous, but the laborers are few”. There is a lot of work to be done out here on these grounds called life, but God has called those whom He has ordained to go and do a great work.
Even though I am an ordained minister in the Methodist church…God can call and ordain anyone whom he chooses at any point in their life. I’ve always said that God ordained me for a higher purpose way before I received the laying of the hands from my Bishop. My physical ordination was nothing but a confirmation and outward showing of the spiritual ordination that God had already sustained in His own time.
Whether you’ve gone through a systematic process through your Episcopal leader…or if you just feel purpose and drive from God to do work – your ordination is secure. You don’t have to be a minister to do the work of the Lord. Clergy and Lay have a shared responsibility in building and up keeping the Kingdom of God. God can use anyone – even you!
So I say I’m “Ordained for the Labor”… What does this really mean? To me it means that God has placed a burden on my life to be a laborer for His Kingdom. The preceding “ordained” is not my ordination that entitled me Reverend, but the ordination that burdened me a child of God with a purpose to do Kingdom work!!!
Are you Ordained for the Labor??? The harvest is ripe…now its time to go out and work!
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