I don’t like that feeling when I go to a new beach and want to grab a bite to eat and don’t know if they will serve me in my board shorts or if I have to put my shirt on and go find my shoes. Or when I go to a client’s office for the first time and wonder if they will think I am good enough, smart enough, old enough. Or when I used to try out for sports teams and wondered if they were going to think I was strong enough, fast enough, tall enough to be on the team
Our lives are filled with these insecurities and questions of worth. The devil uses these insecurities against us when it comes to our faith. Too many people, including myself, fall into this trap. We feel we are not smart enough, not strong enough, we are too sinful to be used by God. But God calls us to come as we are and follow him.
Through out the Bible God uses the small and weak (David), the sinful misguided (Paul) and the lower class, uneducated fisherman (disciples) of the world to expand and transform his Kingdom. In the same way he will use you.
As October approaches quickly and we begin to worry and question if we are meant to go on this trip I encourage you ALL to remember 1 Corinthians 1:26-31. God doesn’t call the strongest, smartest, noblest, most powerful Christians, he calls you and me to go serve him and love him with all our heart. God doesn’t ask us to first change who we are and then come, He tells us to “come as you are” or as my man Kenny Chesney would say “No shoes, No shirt, No Problem.”
I Corinthians 1:26-31
26For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 30And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
Pray also for me, that when I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will boldly make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly as I should!
Eph. 6:19-20
