I love to preach. I love studying for a sermon. I love writing them. I love delivering them. What I don't love is when I walk out and feel like I gave a dud. That happened this past Sunday. I felt that the 9 AM sermon was FAR AND AWAY better than 10:30. Thankfully I was told by some people that they actually liked the 10:30 better. It may have been just that I need to get used to preaching twice. The first one feels fresh to me, #2 feels repetitive. I don't know. All I know is I felt really down about how I delivered the 2nd service.
After my daily Bible reading this past year, I've been reading one day out of the Oswald Chambers devotional. What I read for Monday, Dec. 3rd could not have been more timely. Listen to this: "Never rely on the clearness of your exposition, but as you give your exposition see that you are relying on the Holy Spirit. Rely on the certainty of God's redemptive power, and He will create His own life in souls." I needed to hear that. Also this: "If in preaching the Gospel you substitute your clear knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the Gospel, you hinder people getting to Reality."
And then to think that God knew I would need to read that on Monday, Dec. 3rd of 2007 so he led me to read the devotional this year. Crazy! So cool how God will work little things out in our lives to reveal himself to us.
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