Sometimes God asks you to do the hard things. Like serve through shoveling various types of feces. Or teach children when you have no experience or any idea on how to relate. Or go door-to-door to share the Gospel.
Sometimes He asks for harder things. He asks you to walk into the face of failure and rejection. I am learning that whatever happens, it’s not about me. He has the bigger plan. He has all the puzzle pieces.
I can be rejected and that in no way changes who I am and my identity in Him.
…and then there’s the flip side. When He uses your obedience to bless a situation beyond what you imagine.
In all the craziness of my past week, I chose to focus on Him. He highlighted Romans 8:6, which says “For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.”
In my normal “you’re gonna regret it if you keep walking” fashion, I backtracked to meet and pray for a man this past Tuesday evening. The second we finished, a woman choking back tears approached me and said she felt led to come up and ask for prayer. What. This was new to me. I was able to invite the Holy Spirit in during that time and found myself dancing and skipping to my car on the streets of Gainesville. How good is God.
One of the things this woman said to me before we parted ways was that Jesus is proud of me. Funny because that’s our thing. He says it to me all the time. In the face of rejection or acceptance, I know I am still the person He’s created. The level of my worth doesn’t change, and He’s proud of me.
