We've passed the half way point of the 2015 Great Passion Play season. In a few days it will be dark when the Play begins at 8:30 and this is the last 4-day performance week until the middle of October. It's clear that the tendency for some is to look at upcoming family vacation trips before school begins, to the start of high school football season, going off to college or a host of other "future" plans and forget that we still have more than 40 performance days still ahead of us and that our "job" as ministers, witnesses and walkers of the talk is not over 'til it's over.
We must be cognizant of the fact that many who come to see the Passion Play are coming for the first time, many are not believers or have not fully surrendered their lives to Jesus. Our role here, and in every ministry, is no less important now than it was when we started this "season" or whatever "season of ministry" we have been involved in. Our enthusiasm should never wane and our desire to preach Jesus never diminish just because the time is getting short or the end of the current assignment is in sight. It may be downhill, but we should never think we can coast. We owe it to the lost, to God and to ourselves never to get to the "end" without having done our very best every day and every moment along the way. Granted, it's not an easy task, and we often fall short, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't always try to do our best. Run the race, with perseverance, with joy and with the knowledge that it gets better as we get closer, and each day has the prospect of being the best yet.
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