There are many people in ministry for the wrong reasons. Some are in it for the steady paycheck and there are some that consider it a stepping stone to something bigger and better. I have heard of some people in ministry that are only serving in a specific area until they can get someone else to take it over, their heart is not really involved with what is “assigned” to them. When you do not have a passion for the ministry that you are involved in, when your ministry is just a job that you do to pay your bills, when it is not a calling, it becomes more of a burden than a blessing. Ministry should never be a “got too”, it is a “get too”. When someone is passionate about the ministry they are involved in you can hear it in their voice, you can see it in their eyes, it spills out of them, and most importantly you can feel it in their heart. The sad thing is that when a person is doing it as a job, you can hear it in their voice, you can see it in their eyes, it spills out of them, and most importantly you can feel it in their heart. There are a rare few who care so much about ministering for the Lord Jesus that it becomes who they are, that person will invest their time and dime into what they are passionate about, serving Him. I think about the passion for people that Paul wrote about in *Romans 9:1 I am speaking the truth in Christ. I am not lying; my conscience [enlightened and prompted] by the Holy Spirit bearing witness with me 2 That I have bitter grief and incessant anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off and banished from Christ for the sake of my brethren and instead of them, my natural kinsmen and my fellow countrymen.* I want that passion for people, for the lost and the broken. There is a saying, “Love what you do and you’ll never work another day in your life”. For all of those who are active in ministry, we must remember that ministry is a privilege, if it ever becomes a burden, quit, do something else. I take the words of Charles Spurgeon a little more personal over the past few years, “Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.”