From The Pastor’s Pen – By Brian Horrobin
It was Booker T. Washington, the late American educator and presidential advisor, who once said, “A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good just because it’s accepted by a majority.”
It’s tough to swim against the current when everyone else seems to be going with the flow.
Back in the spring of 1986 I had an opportunity to go back to a church where I had served as a student and become their full-time pastor.
I was to graduate that spring and this position would come at just the right time.
I needed to find a job and here was one staring me in the face.
The church was very much in favour but an official from head office talked them out of hiring me.
He said that they would break me because they would not be able to get past that I had been a student.
“Once a student, always a student” is what he said.
Someone else got hired instead.
I was pretty upset at the time as he cost me a great job opportunity and now I was on the outside looking in.
But low and behold, just a few weeks later, another, less lucrative opportunity came my way.
I ended up taking that position, which later led me to coming to Wallaceburg, where I have now been for more than 27 years.
The majority back in 1986 saw it one way, but God used one wise man to prove that sometimes things are not what they appear.
It’s not always truth versus error, but sometimes it is.
I find it best to pray about everything, and then also seek wise counsel from those who have my best interests at heart, and not necessarily what they think I might want.
Sometimes you just have to swim against the current if you want to get where you need to be.
