Realtalkdevotional
Do you ever experience serious doubts as to the extent that God could
use you to change the world? Whether you are hesitant to count
yourself as valuable to the Lord because of your age, popularity or
knowledge of the Bible or your sins be encouraged to know that God is
not interested in any of those stipulations. He is only interested in
your faithfulness to Him. He is more interested in you starting a
journey to know him than reviewing your past for faults, No man
regardless of stature is or will ever be without sin. Someone once
told me, “God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.” As
cliché as this statement may be, it has always remained close to my
heart. Once we realize that God is interested in our faithfulness more
than our abilities or our past, even the world is not too large to
overcome.
I challenge you to ask the Lord where He could use you the most; don’t
wait any longer to begin His work. The misconception that we will
begin our service to the Lord tomorrow is one of Satan’s best tactics
in slowing down this vast army of God (James 4:13-14). Finally, I
challenge you to remember the example of Paul. He was the “chief of
sinners” yet God developed Him into the greatest evangelist and
missionary the world has ever known. Through his unwavering
faithfulness and obedience to Christ, Paul was used by God to spread
the Gospel from Asia Minor to Rome. The book of Acts paints what
should be an inspiring picture to us all. Paul was abused physically,
emotionally and spiritually yet pressed on in His faithfulness to God.
Nothing could separate Him from the Lord’s call on his life, not
acceptance, hatred, physical injury, shipwreck or age hindered Him
from delivering the Gospel to the “ends of the earth.” You may be the
only Gospel of Christ that your friends and family will ever have the
opportunity to see. May I ask you what’s stopping you from being used
by the Lord today? I imagine you will find neither physical nor social
barricades, but only the condition of your heart in the way.
I could expound on the Social barricades for 1,000 pages but the key
theme is our journey to be Accepted by our peers and our internal need
for validation from man. I think validation is great but the desire
for constant validation usually ends in disappointment. The
disappointment comes from the carnal nature of validation for tangible
things, such as hitting a game winner, making a great album, and/or
breaking a corporate sales record. At the end of the day it’s the
inward matters that count the most. The things in LIFE the matter the
most are not tangible……the ability to be Humble, the ability to Serve
and the ability to be at PEACE with who you are as a MAN are purely
sustained by building up your inner man through JESUS CHRIST.
For God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance,
but the Lord looks at the heart (1 Samuel 16:7).
"DONT GET GOOD TO GET GOD GET GOD TO GET GOOD" unknown
Do you ever experience serious doubts as to the extent that God could
use you to change the world? Whether you are hesitant to count
yourself as valuable to the Lord because of your age, popularity or
knowledge of the Bible or your sins be encouraged to know that God is
not interested in any of those stipulations. He is only interested in
your faithfulness to Him. He is more interested in you starting a
journey to know him than reviewing your past for faults, No man
regardless of stature is or will ever be without sin. Someone once
told me, “God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.” As
cliché as this statement may be, it has always remained close to my
heart. Once we realize that God is interested in our faithfulness more
than our abilities or our past, even the world is not too large to
overcome.
I challenge you to ask the Lord where He could use you the most; don’t
wait any longer to begin His work. The misconception that we will
begin our service to the Lord tomorrow is one of Satan’s best tactics
in slowing down this vast army of God (James 4:13-14). Finally, I
challenge you to remember the example of Paul. He was the “chief of
sinners” yet God developed Him into the greatest evangelist and
missionary the world has ever known. Through his unwavering
faithfulness and obedience to Christ, Paul was used by God to spread
the Gospel from Asia Minor to Rome. The book of Acts paints what
should be an inspiring picture to us all. Paul was abused physically,
emotionally and spiritually yet pressed on in His faithfulness to God.
Nothing could separate Him from the Lord’s call on his life, not
acceptance, hatred, physical injury, shipwreck or age hindered Him
from delivering the Gospel to the “ends of the earth.” You may be the
only Gospel of Christ that your friends and family will ever have the
opportunity to see. May I ask you what’s stopping you from being used
by the Lord today? I imagine you will find neither physical nor social
barricades, but only the condition of your heart in the way.
I could expound on the Social barricades for 1,000 pages but the key
theme is our journey to be Accepted by our peers and our internal need
for validation from man. I think validation is great but the desire
for constant validation usually ends in disappointment. The
disappointment comes from the carnal nature of validation for tangible
things, such as hitting a game winner, making a great album, and/or
breaking a corporate sales record. At the end of the day it’s the
inward matters that count the most. The things in LIFE the matter the
most are not tangible……the ability to be Humble, the ability to Serve
and the ability to be at PEACE with who you are as a MAN are purely
sustained by building up your inner man through JESUS CHRIST.
For God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance,
but the Lord looks at the heart (1 Samuel 16:7).
"DONT GET GOOD TO GET GOD GET GOD TO GET GOOD" unknown
