Hope For Another Lord's Day

          Tomorrow is another Lord's Day.....and as usual I will be hoping to hear reports in the following week on things strange that happened in pulpits around America....not gold dust sprinkled from the ceiling....not holy laughter or people falling all over the place....and not some prophet standing up and telling the congregation how Donald Trump was sent by God to make America great again....we've had plenty of this type of nonsense already. No...I'm hoping that reports will come out on how pastors who are normally smiling all the time are laden down with burdens so heavy that they are pleading for God to intervene in America. I'm hoping that some smidgen of discernment was given them in the past week on what indeed is happening to our nation....and what is ahead. I'm hoping that all of a sudden they're not worried about keeping their pulpits for so many years until they can retire....but realize all of sudden that God's hand of judgment is what we see all around us....as we Christians look anywhere and everywhere for relief other than Jesus Christ. I'm hoping that men in these pulpits see a world falling apart in every conceivable way and say....."Come Lord Jesus!" I hoping that these men of whom these words would point to.....would come to see that this is not a job or a profession or even a vocation that they have.....but that they volunteered.....and took vows....to tend to the sheep....to warn them when necessary....that they will be held responsible....and that they choose something that by its very nature....means constant seeking of God's guidance.....constant learning.....constant humbling themselves and seeing themselves a unworthy for such a responsibility....so much so that they can only wonder why God would permit someone as weak as them in such an important position. There are pastors all over America doing these things every day.....and have done so for many years.....if you happen to have one of these men in your pulpit....and you see the strain that has been upon them....and maybe the weariness as churches grow to huge numbers all around them by failing to upset the evangelical upbeatness prevalent everywhere today....then thank God for such a blessing.....and encourage these men.....for you have been mightily blessed.

(Monday morning update:  No reports yet that God's Holy Spirit has begun to move upon the pulpits of America.)

(Friday update: Still no reports that anyone in our pulpits have awakened)