I have tried to write this blog eight times. Well not this blog, a blog. I had no idea what I wanted to write. There were plenty of things I knew I could write about , but I just didn’t have any inspiration.
However, yesterday when I was trying to figure out what book of the Bible I wanted to read through, I felt like I should start in 1 Corinthians. So, I opened it up and started reading in chapter one. As I was reading I came across a couple verses that stood out to me:
“For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power” 1 Corinthians 1:17
It hit me as I was sitting there reading this that my fear of not having the right words to say should not be something I had to worry about. God didn’t send me because He thought I had all the wisdom or all the right words. He sent me to just spread the gospel. And that no matter what I said, I couldn’t mess up whatever it was He had for that person. I was giving myself too much power thinking that I could mess up His will and plans. It was such a blessing to me reading that because it just comforted me knowing that it wasn’t on me to have the right words to say, He would speak through me.
“For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of Him you are in Jesus Christ, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that as it is written, ‘Let the one who boasts, boasts in the Lord’”
1 Corinthians 1:26-31
This is a verse I hope myself and my squad will carry with us through the next nine months.
