“What is the Big Coat Club?” you ask.
Well, for the first two months of our trip the leadership
was struggling to come up with a team name. Nothing was really sinking in and
really speaking about what we are going through. At our last debrief in Kajabie
Mike Hindes spoke on 1 Samuel 2:19.
“Each year his mother
made him a little robe and took it to him
When she went up with
her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.”
You are probably thinking, “That
man got a whole sermon out of that random verse about Samuel?” The answer is
yes, he did. My rendition of it probably won’t do justice to what was actually
said, however, I am still going to try. (You shouldn’t have captured my
attention so much Mike. I was so enthralled that I didn’t take notes.)
Here it goes:
Hannah was barren. She was unable
to provide a son for Elkanah. Hannah cried about before the Lord and the Lord
heard her and she conceived and gave birth to Samuel. Then she takes Eli, after
she has weaned him, and gives him over to the Lord. Every year she would visit
Eli and bring him a new robe/ coat. Since she only brought him one coat a year
chances are that she made it big so that he could grow into it over the course
of the year. (You would hate to get a new coat only in two months not to have
it fit any more.) The same goes for us. Sometimes the Lord presents us with a
coat (responsibility, gifting) and we say, “God this coat is too big. It
doesn’t fit. Don’t you know me at all? You know the number of hairs on my head,
but you don’t know what size coat I wear?”
The fact is that God knows us
better than we know ourselves. Cliché, but true. He sees are potential and he
won’t give us more than we can handle. God gives us a big coat because he knows
we will grow into it. Then, when the time comes for a new coat we get another,
and it is to big too. We aren’t meant to stay the same spiritual size our
entire lives. We are meant to grow. We are expected to grow. We need to grow.
If you are walking around in a coat that is too small for you it limits your movement.
A coat that is too big for you let’s you move freely. You may trip over it a
few times because it is so big, but God is there to pull you back up and help nourish
you until you out grow it.
As a leadership team we thought
this only fitting as we step into leadership roles here on the World Race. We
came just to serve, and while and training camp, or through the course of the
trip God called us up to leadership. He gave us a bigger coat than we
anticipated. For some of us it seems tough to fill. For others we are growing
faster than we expected. The truth of the matter is, that as scary as that big
coat is, I want to wear it. I want to grow. I want more.
We have deemed ourselves the Big
Coat Club (The B.C.C.). I am always want to wear a coat of the Lord that
swallows me whole in His presence. Continue to challenge me. Continue to
stretch me, and if you have a bigger coat, I’ll take it.
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