Eye Contact

This Easter weekend was packed full of work. I’d do it again in a heartbeat, but it was exhausting. A few staff became my temporary roommates this week, and the auditorium turned into our luxurious apartment. There were numerous rehearsals; lighting, audio, video, and stage equipment to be set up, videos to be shot, music to be fine tuned, costumes adjustments, and props critiqued. I had it better than Brian, but this week was insane.

After falling into my couch Sunday afternoon, I thought to myself “all of that work for a few 1 hour worship sets.” After getting some much needed sleep, I came into the office to tear down and get a start on the check-list for this week. I ran across a timely quote by Driscoll in my sermon prep, “keep your Bible open, your eyes focused, your hands ready, and your heart broken, and fight in such a way that when you stand before Jesus in the end, you can look him in the eye.”

I too often I lose focus of the end goal in what I do at The Bridge. To be able to stand before Jesus, completely worn out, yet able to look Him in the eye because I gave His work all I had in me. The Christian life may be exhausting at times, but I’d have it no other way.