This weekend I heard Glennon Melton speak at a conference down in North Carolina. One of the things she said was, "We can't let what we can't do stop us from doing what we can do." This reminds me of a saying my Mom really likes, "No one can do everything, but everyone can do something."
We can get caught up sometimes wanting to accomplish big things for God and we pass over the thousands of little things we can do daily. We fail to realize the small things God is doing through us or for us daily. When I was younger, I always thought I was made to do big things for God. Without going into much detail, I almost died several times as an infant and I had sister who died young. I felt that God kept me alive for a particular reason and I was destined to do something big. I grew up with this pressure (from myself) to do right and make my life count. I felt that if I wasted my life I'd be wasting my sister's life as well. With all that being said, I grew up preparing myself for the day that God was going to use me and I always held myself to a high standard. What I failed to realize, is how guilty I felt that my sister died and how much it affected me.
When I was in college, I realized that God had been doing "big" things through me my entire life. I needed to stop looking towards the future and just pause in knowing that I was enough and thank God for all He had done for me thus far. Nothing I did or tried to do would make me more worthy of God working through me. He just asks me to be willing to walk with Him daily. God's hand can be traced throughout my life from the moment I was born, through childhood, and into college. Something shifted in me last year which made me realize that God is faithful. He freed me from my guilt and took the burden of paying Him back for my sister's death.
God is faithful. He doesn't ask me to do everything or big things. He calls me to do something or what I can do in the lives of those around me. So now, instead of striving to do great and mighty things for God, I thank Him daily for caring enough about me to do the little things.
