For every appointment, there will be a corresponding disappointment for every calling we embrace, there will eventually be a corresponding calling to release. What I mean are the times when the Lord “dis-appoints” us from roles and responsibilities to which he had once “appointed” us. What I mean by disappointments is not what you probably think of as disappointments. And a strange dimension of seeing the end of my vocational ministry on the horizon has been preparing for and experiencing the natural, necessary series of ministry disappointments. It’s also strange to realize that I’m entering the fourth quarter of my vocational career (should the Lord sustain my life and abilities). Why does the milestone feel surreal? Well, for starters, it’s strange to think that John and I have now been working together for the majority of my life. For instance, this July, John Piper and I will mark three full and wonderful decades of ministry partnership that, by God’s grace, resulted in the birth of the mission we call Desiring God. As you grow older, you increasingly find yourself at milestones that feel a bit surreal.
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