At a leadership seminar I had to prepare a 2 minute message. Trust me I was dreading it. Even though I knew about it for months before the seminar, guess what? Yeah you guessed it. I didn’t do it until the day before. Our 2 minute presentations were after lunch and honestly I didn’t worry about it, or even really think about it. Usually when I am preparing for a speech or for something where I have to publicly speak, I am freaking out and practicing/memorizing like crazy. But this was different. I even had to look at my notebook a few times to even remember what I had planned my message on.
So the time came to give my message. I got up there. With my notebook in hand. Started with my first sentence, and then after that I was gone. I kept looking at my notebook for references, but I was so far off from what I had originally written, it was basically no help. After the beginning of my message, I could tell I really had the audience’s attention, so once I saw that, I knew it was my chance to let them hear what I had to say. It was great, but I know it was not me speaking. But more like God speaking through me.
I honestly don’t remember what I said. I mean I know the general idea, but not as if I had it memorized. And I did end up speaking over my 2 minutes. The person I was performing for was so entrenched in my message, she forgot to look at the time and stop me. I guess that is good. Haha.
Usually I am super nervous when it comes to public speaking. My message for this day was trusting God in all circumstances, and how apt that I decided to trust him with my message and it just goes amazingly. But no glory to me. All to God. I guess it is the same for Moses. He whined, I guess you would call it, but God knew what he was doing and sent Aaron along to help. So in our everyday lives, trust God and he will provide as He sees fit (even if we may not agree). Though God did not send someone to speak my message for me (how nice that would have been), God did give me the courage and confidence and the words to make my message meaningful and remembered.
