We have this saying on the World Race…
“Be Flexible”
Back home at my church we have three rules…
1. “Be Flexible”
2. “Be Very Flexible”
3. “Be Very Very Flexible”
This is something apparently that God wants to grow me in. As of Saturday morning around 10:00 I found out that we had to prepare a sermon or “the morning message” for church the very next morning. So naturally I volunteered knowing that God would help me and wouldn’t leave me hanging so to speak.
As I sat around the dining room table listening to sermons from back home trying to find some sort of structure in which to input my sermon or message into. Because everyone knows that you have to have it all together on the very first time you give the message….or not.
You just need to have a little faith. Faith that the Holy Spirit will put words into your mouth when you need something to say. I just knew that it was going to be about 3 minutes of me racing through my notes and then it was over. I felt like I needed more meat in my sermon. But I wasn’t sure how to get it there.
I then came to the realization that it doesn’t matter how long the message is. What matters is how effective and powerful it is. How does this relate to these people to whom I would be speaking? Thats what matters. If I get up there and speak for an hour and no one gets anything out of it then I have just wasted my time and the time of those around me.
Looking back on that day, I know that regardless of how long I went, I still made an impact. Whether I talked for an hour or 10 minutes, my impact was only something that God can make happen. By letting God do the work and me just speaking, it makes it so much less stressful.
By letting God do the heavy lifting we don’t have to work as hard at “making everything sound perfect.”
Let God take control and don’t worry about how long you speak. Because God can work through the few as well as the many.
