We are continuously met with new challenges every day. Both good and bad. New things can be exciting, and also a little scary. New brings a long with it ups and downs, glorious highs and deep lows. New brings differences and unknowings. I have just recently embarked on a new journey in my own life by being called into ministry even more so, and stepping up into the role of being a youth pastor. It is a time of great excitement. It is also a time of nervousness.
I know I am not the only one to ever doubt myself or my thoughts. I know I am not the only one that has questioned the voice of God. Questioning your calling is not uncommon. We are human. We have self doubt and we can be our own biggest critics. We ask God if we are really good enough for the job he has called us to do, if we are even truly being called at all, if this is the right time to pursue our calling, are we prepared and equipped to do the job at hand. I could go on and on with the questions I have heard asked and questions I have asked myself. I have heard it said this way, and I’m sure you have too, God does not call the equipped, He equips the called.
Be willing to change the things in your life, to make yourself new in Christ, to truly serve God. Become new in God so you can find the you God sees.
“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.” – C.S. Lewis
Do not talk, or think yourself out of the calling and anointing God has put upon your life. God will continuously place new opportunities in front of you every day. Don’t hold yourself back and take a risk to grow the kingdom of heaven.
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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