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And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has enabled me, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry, - 1 Timothy 1.12

Paul is a great example to us all. He loved the ministry God gave him and he knew that he was powerless to do it on his own. I think we get a misconception with our modern ear when we read the words 'putting me into the ministry' because we still can hold to the old concept of clergy and laity. We can think the 'ministry' only applies to those who are in the vocational ministry, but that is not what Paul says here. What he literally says is that God has put Paul in His service. 

And the truth is that God has called all of us into His service. He has called us to love and share and to love and serve and to love and do good works and to love and feed the poor and to love and share the gospel and to love and be meek and to love and be patient and to love be pure and to love and be holy and to love and to...

Somwhow God as considered his chidlren, all of us, to serve Him. 

I am glad that is not where it stops - He has also enabled us to do it. 

It can be a bit intimidating to think that every one of us are called to minister for our Saviour. It is an awesome task and the responsibilty is more than we can really comprehend. In our own flesh there is no way we could do it. 

But thank God He counts us worthy of serving him. Thank God for enabling us to do it. 

Let's not let Him down.