How it ends that matters. When I joined

How it ends that matters.

When I joined Elim as a Pastor there were 2 national names, one had an amazing children’s ministry, the other was a sought after Pastor.
Yesterday I was talking to a couple who had attended the funeral sadly of the sought after Pastor. It wasn’t really a Christian funeral, in fact one of the eulogies came from a work colleague who said “when he started at work he told us he was a Pentecostal Pastor but then he became one of us” he then quoted something that he was well known for which wasn’t fitting for any Christian.
At the same funeral my friends met the amazing children’s minister that was. He was not the man that he once was. He was no longer national, nor a minister nor working with children.

What makes man and woman move from such places in God to become shadows of who they were?
What do they think about when they’ve walked away?
Do they still pray?
Do they rubbish their experience of God?
Did they have anything to walk away from?

2 Timothy 4:10 Demas deserted his place and Paul writes about it.
I may want to desert but I choose not to.
I choose to be careful with disappointment so that I am not dis-appointed.
I don’t want people to write about me as a warning but as a wonder.

Keep focused.