Where I would be?

Last Friday, my Bible College just celebrated Ps. Greg Johnston, my college principal's 25th year in-service to the church and 10 years to the College. We as the college organised a surprise party for him to celebrate his 25 years on ministry to the church. At the end of the party, all 70 of us students made a semi-circle and had Ps Greg sit in the centre and each of us took turns to go up to him and say words of affirmation to him. Everyone had such wonderful and sincere right from the heart nice things to say to Ps. Greg. To me, Ps. Greg is not ny bible college principal, he's a friend to all of us, a father to us inter-state and overseas students. I remember, only my second month in Bible College, me have not done any song leading or playing the guitar or whatever, decided to include me on a ministry trip with him and had me share the communion message. He had faith in me when all the other students still had doubts and still kept their distance from me. Ps Greg was a sincere man, a man full of integrity, a man filled with humility and a man with a passion to his destiny, which is us students in his college.

I sat back, looking at everyone, having nothing but praises after praises for this man, even people who had just known him for 3 weeks also had good sincere comments for this man and I wondered to myself.. where would I be 25 years from now? would I be in the same position as Ps. Greg where he's touched so many lives and made an impact in the ministries he's been in. I wondered, if there's an example of one man I wanted to follow that still impacted lives after 25 years in ministry, it's Ps Greg Johnston. I hope when I reach that stage in my life, I would have a chance of people sitting me in the middle of a semi circle and say those same things said to Ps Greg. It's not that I am working for fame and pride but I want to work towards being a good man of God where I would have impacted many lives and lived my purpose according to God. I look at myself now, it's a long way to work to being a man like Ps. Greg. Guess I better start getting a crack on things.