What has God empowered me to do?
I have been worrying about the wrong thing. Because I am convinced that our mission as a church is to make disciples that make disciples I have been worrying about how I could make this happen. It has burdened me in the wrong kind of way. I have felt almost depressed over my inability to make this happen. In fact some of those whom I had thought I was discipling don’t seem all that interested anymore! But then God exposed me to some words of wisdom from a book I had read sometime back. I happen to be “flipping” though it on my iPad and these words caught my eye and ended up greatly encouraging my smallish soul. The book is “Why the Spirit Inside you is better than Jesus beside you” by J. D. Grear. On page 80 he writes… “God commissioned only one Messiah, and it’s not us. He calls us to be servants, not fellow-saviors; stewards, not suppliers. He wants us not to be guilt-driven, but gift-driven; not only looking outward at the mission need, but inward at his empowering presence. The question is not just, ‘How much needs to be done?’ but ‘What specifically has he empowered me to do?’” So now I have stopped asking God to make me a dynamic disciple-maker like… (Jeff Vanderstelt, Francis Chan or Ryan Rippee) but let me be doing what you have called and empowered me to do (as insignificant as that may seem to be).
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