Sharon Randall wrote in her syndicated column today "I don't know about you, but I get a little tired of adventures. I don't mean the kind where you go someplace you always wanted to go and do things you always dreamed of doing. My adventures tend to take me places I never wanted to go and teach me how to do things I never wanted to learn. . . If you stay alive and pay attention, you'll be amazed at the wonders you will get to see, or occasionally, have to wrestle"
This got me to thinking about my life. How often I find myself frustrated with God for not making in simple or for making me endure things I never wanted to experience. It is amazing how one can look back and see how each of those experiences has shaped the person we are today.
In his message this morning, our pastor Kevin Kennedy, spoke about the calling of Abram to leave everything and follow him to an unknown location. That is faith. I often wonder if I even have the faith to follow God across the street. The first sign of difficulty or struggle and my flesh screams to quit. Recently my wife and I felt a call to missions. In the three months that have followed we have often found ourselves thinking, “How can God possibly use us when we can't even seem to get everything together here in Texas.”
I will never cease to be amazed by the fact that God choose to use broken vessels of earthen clay to fulfill his divine and royal purpose. I am always drawn back to the verse that tells us that "he who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it." My prayer is that as God continues to take me down his path that I will trust those "adventures" that are designed to sculpt me. Only our divine father could have orchestrated this amazing journey we call Life.
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Its so true that our salvation, and purpose, and our mission is not based on our qualifications or determination. So many times I think of who I am and wonder, "Why does God want to use me?"
I've realized its to His glory to use me for His purposes. I am not at all able to do anything that can be claimed to be of God or by God without His movement in my life. The fact that godly words sometimes come from my lips and actions that bring others closer to Him come through me despite my crippled being, is a shining example of only God doing these things.
Thank God that we are no longer bound by the law, but now live under grace. We can now walk with Him, despite our clubbed foot of greed or our broken back of lust or our blind eye of selfishness. He chooses us to bring His will to this world and exemplify His love for all man, even those who sin.
Can you imagine how hopeless life would be if salvation had anything to do with our worth?
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