From the Pulpit: God makes you 'good enough'
Am I good enough? Maybe we feel confident in our work because we have the training or schooling or experience. We are confident because we feel like we have the knowledge to do the job. We believe that to be a leader in our area of expertise means to have enough knowledge to be able to tell others how to handle a situation or fix a problem. We believe we must be able to answer every question posed to us. But when God calls us to leadership we find reasons why we are not good enough. We tell ourselves that I don’t have the knowledge to be able to lead in God’s work. We are great at finding excuses and reasons for why we are not good enough.
When God called Moses to go and free the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, Moses had many excuses. God called Moses from a bush that looked like it was burning, but didn’t burn up. Why would Moses argue with a God that speaks to him that way? God is speaking to you through a bush, just go and do what He says, but Moses argues. He argues with God four times and each time God gives him encouragement in the call, signs to show he is a messenger of God and in the end sends an ally, his brother Aaron, with him. God explains to Moses that He will give Moses and Aaron the words to say and tells Moses that the Pharaoh will let the Israelites go.
God doesn’t pick the one with the most knowledge, the most eloquent speakers, the most confident. He chooses who He chooses and then gives them the skills they need to be a witness for Him. When Jesus sends out His disciples in Matthew chapter 10, He says to them, “do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.”
When God calls us into His work, He is not calling us to sit over those whom we are leading. In fact, He tells us the opposite is true. Matthew 20:25-29 says, “But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” We are to be servant leaders. Be bold in the work that God has given to you knowing that He is always with you, giving you the words and skills that you need to fulfill His plan. God makes you good enough.
