It's always amazing to me to see people stepping up into a new thing...It's amazing to me when I realize how far I have climbed and how many new things I've stepped into over the years...and yet, those darn insecurities and voices that say I'm not certifiable. Not qualified. Not able.
I have heard in the past "God equips the called" and though that is true, I personally know that those that He calls are not always equipped before hand. It's on the job training and much of the training is done by God's Spirit covertly. And by that I mean, You don't even know that you are being prepared for something for your future.
I think of all the networking I've done in the past when I was a coordinator for and international organization and the liason for chapter development, the times I worked with area hospitals and non-profits coordinating assistance for teen moms...and all of that experience is being used in recent months to coordinate some efforts to get churches networking together to build and encourage each other as they minister.
It's amazing that regardless of what has happened in our lives, good, bad and indifferent (menial) our response to it, our walk through it, can all be used by God to equip us for a greater work.
Do I still wonder if I have what it takes to do what I'm doing? YES! Do I get befuddled by my own insecurities sometimes? ABSOLUTELY! But I plug ahead looking to be faithful to what I know and what I have heard.
In re-reading the story of the deliverance of Israel from Egypt, I was amazed this past week as Moses argued with God - 'I'm not able, I'm not capable, I'm not certifiable!- I've got nothing to show for who I am - I've been in this wilderness away from the hub and happenings, the power and prestige, the activity of it all - and You want me to ...." I CAN SO RELATE!
Can you? Ever feel like God has said to you GO, DO, SPEAK!
Then you give all the excuses, the reasons the world would say that you aren't good enough, the best, the right choice?
As you read on in the story, you find that Moses goes, meets up with his brother, and the leaders of Israel, they are all excited and then He goes to see Pharaoh. Pharaohs response is I don't know this god you speak of...I'm going to double the labor of your people...
As Moses goes to His own people, the very leaders that were all excited to see him a day ago, are now furious with him for the trouble he brought them....Can you imagine how that might cause Moses to second guess his own calling...Can you imagine how insecure that might make him?
When we hear God tell us to go, regardless of the hinderences, and the resistance even from those we love and know - we have to see our validation from the Lord...as we do, and are faithful regardless of what things look like, eventually the VALIDATION will be there!!!
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