Embrace Christ in All Things

What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you?

When I look back on my life, I sometimes think I put too much stock in becoming a pastor. The main way to honor God isn’t becoming a pastor, though that is the calling for some. The main way to honor God is to embrace Christ in all things.

An electrician who is faithful to God is more important in the kingdom of God than a disobedient pastor. A person who scrubs floors, washes windows, welds, or whatever profession who honors Jesus by being faithful to His commands is just as important to the Kingdom of Heaven as a pastor.

People in these professions have the same opportunities and more than a pastor or evangelist. Use wherever you are to share Jesus on your own time. God loves you just as much as His other children.

Bad news: we have all lied, used God’s name in vain, stolen, and looked with lust. We are lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterers at heart. We all deserve to burn in Hell for all eternity.

Good news: God is rich in mercy. He sent Jesus Christ, truly God and truly man, to live a sinless life, die on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins, and rise from the dead three days later. God calls all people everywhere to repent (turn from sin) and trust in Jesus Christ to save them from sin.

God will seal His people with the Holy Spirit, who keeps His people saved, transforms them from evil to Good, and keeps them holy. God makes everything better.