This is an excerpt from an interview that C.J. Mahaney did with David Powlison. If you don't know either of these men, you should get acquainted. The interview in full can be found here.
Where in ministry are you most regularly tempted to discouragement?
I don’t tend to get discouraged in ministry. I think that I was convinced early on that evil is incomprehensibly deep and tangled, and that life is shadowed by death. The fewer the illusions, the less prone to disillusionment. Jesus came for all this sin and suffering, continues to enter in with light, mercy and power into imperfect and broken lives, will return to make right all that is wrong. “Tis mercy all, immense and free….” Kyrie eleison. I do get discouraged simply as a man, by my own shortcomings, lovelessness, and weakness/astheneia. But time after time the place of discouragement has become the door for the mercies of Jesus to delight and refresh me.
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