I COULD NEVER BE PRESIDENT
Someone said,”In America anyone can become President–that’s one of the risk you have to take!”. As a child I wouldn’t have believed that, but now I’ve lived long enough to see that it really could happen! Even someone without any experience, someone who has never had a real job is liable to become the president! It happened! And something worse could happen!
Parents often try to encourage their children by saying,”You can be whatever you want to be. You could even grow up to be president”–as though that would make them a success. The truth is, for some people, becoming president would be a sign of failure, not success. I’ll use myself as an example. I could never be president, and it’s not because–
–I’m not smart enough, although that is true.
–I don’t have the temperament to do it, although I don’t. I don’t excel at being “politically correct”
–I couldn’t get enough votes, although I couldn’t.
–I don’t have enough political connections, although I don’t.
–of the size of the salary, that would be more than enough.
–I don’t love my country, I do–more than some presidents.
I could never be president, under any circumstances, because God has called me to preach. For me to serve as president would not only be a demotion, it would be an act of disobedience. Being president would be fine for some folks, but it would be a crime, sin, for me. I have no respect for any man who claims God called him to preach and then does something else. If he isn’t faithful to God I wouldn’t trust him to be faithful to the office of president.
But, this isn’t just about preachers. This is about all of us and our attitude toward God’s will for our life. If success is defined as doing the will of God then all of us can be successful! And doing anything else, regardless of how well we do it, would be failure. Success is about being faithful, not becoming famous. It’s not about fortune and fame. It’s not about being president or a preacher. It is simply discovering the will of God and doing it–that’s success!
So, do you know what God wants you to do? Are you doing it? If the answer is “Yes”, then you never need to feel less important or less successful than anybody else. Whether you are a housewife, a farmer, or a ditch-digger, what you do is just as important to you as anything else– including being president. Think about it!- HDS, October 2012
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
