More and more each and every day I realize that I am simply a vessel used by God. I literally am nothing without Him, through Him. I learn that it doesn’t matter how many times I fail, how many times I give up, or how many times I have no earthly clue what I’m doing—He’s going to use me despite all of my mishaps and crazy, only for His purpose.
In fact, He’ll use me even when I’m feeling the most confused and “unusable”.
Sometimes I think that if we were to remind ourselves of this greater purpose on a regular basis, we might see life a bit differently.
I don’t understand why things happen in this world most days, but I can tell you this, God is still alive and well and moving. I know because I see it each and every day. People look at me like I’m crazy, but friends, the things I witness on a regular basis are nothing short of a miracle.
God. Is. Real.
God is alive and well.
I have phone conversations with people I wouldn’t have dreamed of speaking to in 1,000 years, and we talk about dreams and the “greater good”. Some of them pan out, some of them don’t.
But God used me . . . . somehow, in some way, I was used. Those conversations had a purpose. Growth happened inside.
Even something as simple as witnessing a chicken lay an egg, and sharing that with my friends or family—getting back to the land—God used me.
Even in the midst of a conversation with a hurting wife online who needs direction, even if I don’t have all the answers, God used me.
Do you know that no matter what you do or say in this life, nothing matters unless you’re doing it with a greater purpose in mind?
Someone said to me today, “I’m not in the business of entertainment anymore, I’m in the business of making a difference.”
And the floodgates open wide . . . and at that moment, when your heart is completely open to whatever may come your way . . . . God uses you too, friends. He uses us to make a difference.
A lot of the things in life that God asks you to do, or leads you to do, will be simple. But the reality is that we serve an incredibly big God, and sometimes, He’s going to ask us to do incredibly big things when we have no idea how to do them.
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”
So I challenge you right now to think of something that you know God is calling you or asking you to do. You know it. You’ve probably already thought of it in that split second of reading this.
And then, put it on your calendar. Open your heart. And see what God does. See how God uses you. Friend, it’s going to be crazy. But it’s going to be worth it.
Be in the business of doing, of making a difference, not just entertaining the thought of it anymore.
“But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.” ― Francis Chan; Crazy Love
