The proverb has a very agricultural turn but its underlying message is things need to be done in the right order. One has to have priorities. This is true in the monistrry as much as in any other sphere. At any given moment one can be doing one of several useful things - reading, praying, evangelising, visiting, sermon preparing, etc. If we lack a proper sense of priotrities we will not do well. Some years ago Brian Croft wrote a book called The Pastor’s Ministry: Biblical Priorities for Faithful Shepherds (Zondervan, 2015). There he says
“Many pastors, myself included, will go week after week until eventually that soft but necessary voice calling us to stop and pray just fades out. If enough time passes, the voice of conviction and desire will go away. When that happens, prayer gets squeezed out of our life. Ironically, a pastor can be so busy caring for his people that he never makes time to stop and pray for them. But this isn’t right. It reveals a lack of faith and a problem with misplaced priorities.”
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