I took my reading glasses to the pulpit with me so I could read the selection. Months later, while preaching on a very technical passage, I was quoting an old commentary written in extremely small print. Had I lost my gift? Was I in the beginning stages of a mental disease? I anxiously pondered all the possibilities. My pregnant pauses were no longer to give my listeners time to reflect they were to give me time to look at my notes and make my point. I found myself stopping to reread my notes silently to get back into the flow of my message. The thoughts weren’t coming like they used to. I had taught God’s Word for over 20 years on college campuses, at schools, and in local churches, and I had never had this problem before. I was frustrated, but I wasn’t quite sure why. “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” -A.
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