Every Christian should be looking to the Lord for something to do in the kingdom of God, and everyone ought to be asking God to honour him with a job too big for him. That\u2019s why I pity anybody who can do everything he is trying to do, who limits himself timidly to that which he knows he can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What a sad thing for a Christian to say, \u201cI\u2019m going to serve the Lord, but I\u2019m going to serve God strictly within the framework of my own ability to get the thing done.\u201d If we are to accomplish what God expects of us, the improbability of our task will surely drive us to our knees with the cry, \u201cO God, who am I?\u201d I think it may be safely said that God is still looking for men who know their own insufficiencies so well that He can perform the miraculous through them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A prime illustration is in the life of Moses, as recorded in Exodus chapter three. Moses asked the question, \u201cWho am I?\u201d in the face of a staggering call from God- a call to go back and face a hostile empire and to liberate and bring out of Egypt a whole nation of more than a million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moses said, \u201cI can\u2019t.\u201d God said, \u201cMoses, I know you can\u2019t, but go and do it!\u201d If Moses had arisen immediately upon receiving the call, and said, \u201cAll right, when do I start?\u201d God would have had to put him through another furnace of testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a principle so true of us all in our human experiences. Whenever I think I can stand up and say, \u201cI am now strong enough, sufficient enough, I can do it!\u201d then God fades out, and there comes only grief and woe and sterility and fruitlessness and, finally, eclipse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, we are faced with new tasks, with the need of cleansing, with the need of atonement, with the mysteries of life and death and immortality, and I say, \u201cO God, who am I?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And God replies, \u201cSon, it doesn\u2019t make too much difference who you are- I am all you need!\u201d So, I give to you today the One Who is everything you need. Jesus Christ is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. He is our holiness forevermore, redemption full and sure-He is all we need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this day of glorification of human talent, we are grateful for all human abilities, but we are not envious of any of it. \u201cBut we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us\u201d (2 Corinthians 4:7).<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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