Dear Pastor,
You may not have thought about this recently or even in these precise terms, but may I take a moment to remind you that you represent the Holy? Indeed you do.
In part, because you are a Christian: a “little Christ”. As a child of God, you carry around inside of you the Father’s Spiritual DNA and you show off the “genetic” characteristics you have inherited. As a child of God Most High, you should look like Him and when people encounter and engage you, they often times will be struck by the fact that you represent a Holy God.
Furthermore, you represent the Holy because you are a pastor and an undershepherd to the great Shepherd. When people see you, whether consciously or sub-consciously they consider that your calling, role, and activity are all about representing a Holy God to a un-holy and un-godly world. Pastor, when people see you, whether they see God’s characteristics in you, when they become aware that you are a pastor, they expect that you will represent God accurately. Thank you for taking the time to pray that God’s holiness would be in you and shine through you. Thank you for making it a priority to honor the Holy Presence of God in you and at work in His church. Thank you for seeking to represent the Holy, faithfully in word, attitude, and deed.
When your heart is pure and your mind is set on things above and your will is determined to be a holy representative of God’s holiness, then you can be assured that God will make sure to shine through you. Let’s you and I be ever so careful to honor the amazing call of God to represent Him. And with our own wonder, awe and amazement, let us seek to honor His holiness even as we let His holiness flow through us.
Christ is with us, Christ is in us
Mike Johnson
Pastor Michael Johnson 