This week saw the start of a new chapter for Charlotte & I. The growing sense of call towards pastoral leadership & vocational ministry over the last few years has combined with the affirmation of the Church we love & have been part of here in Cardiff over the last few years and led to me being appointed as a Pastoral Assistant at RBC. We are excited to play a small role in seeing the vision of the Church fulfilled, to be a family of faith on a mission to see spiritual transformation in South Wales & to the ends of the earth.
As I've started the role this week I've been overwhelmed by the sovereign goodness of my Father in heaven. During a prayer time with the staff earlier this week I was just smacked between the eyes with the truth that though this role may be new to me - new responsibilities, new challenges, new discipleship opportunities, new ministry - it is not new to the One who called me into it.
He is the God who wrote all my days in His book when not even one of them had come to be (Psalm 139:16). He is the God who chose me to be in Christ before I was born (Ephesians 1:4) and has prepared good works for me to walk in in advance (Ephesians 2:10). And perhaps most glorious of all, He will fulfil the purpose for which He called me (Psalm 138:8) so that at the end of my days I will be able to say "I have finished the race!" (2 Timothy 4:7).
So this new role is completely covered and upheld by His sovereign goodness.
If you are starting something new or anxiously peering into the near future take heart and be encouraged that our God is sovereign and good. When your past in secure in the sovereign call of God & when your future is assured by the sustaining grace of God it eliminates all fear in the present because fear in the present is motivated by a sense of lack, and in our sovereign God we have all we need.
