Fulfill Your Ministry!

Wow, talk about marching orders!  This is from Paul's 2nd letter to Timothy but could it apply to each and every one of us as well?  But you say "I don't have a ministry.". 

Really?  What do you think your life is? 

2 Timothy 4:1-5(NKJV)

1I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead £at His appearing and His kingdom: 

2Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 

3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 

4and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 

5But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Preach the word Paul says and ends it with an exclamation point.  Then the next highlighted point seems to say do whatever it takes.  Next comes a warning that many will fall away and listen to false teachers.  The Scripture ends with a final charge, fulfill your ministry.

Does that mean each of us should be out there preaching sermons?  I don't think so.  The Bible clearly tells us that we have different gifts to use in our personal ministries. 

What I think it means is that each of us needs to use the gifts that God has given us to fulfill the ministry that God has assigned us!