Have you ever been asked to do something that you were fairly certain was beyond your ability?
When Tracie and I first met she was a middle school language arts teacher and soon after a high school English teacher. Soon after we got married and moved into a house that she with the help of her pastor/builder dad, built a few years prior. (A friend once joked by asking me, "Do you know what you and the President of the United States have in common? Answer: Neither one of you live in your own house! Well, we had been married for a few months and she said, “Let’s build a raised flower bed next to the carport.” I was like, “What!” I have never used a power saw! If I needed a screw driver I used a knife from the kitchen. I thought to myself, there’s no way that I can do that! Another day, I was asked to go to lunch with my pastor and the guy who had been leading the youth group at the church I was attending. We sat there eating a Chick-fil-a sandwich, and they asked me if I would be the point leader of the youth group, and build a Student Ministry. I was like, “What!” I didn’t go to middle school and I hated high school, why would I want to go back?! I thought to myself, there’s no way I can do that! But you know what? I built that raised flowerbed using landscape timbers, a power saw, and a few nails. We drove by there a few years later, after we had sold the house, and it was still standing! I accepted the challenge of building a Student Ministry and we saw a handful of students in 1992 grow to a couple of hundred over the next fifteen years. Challenging. Frustrating. But so fulfilling to see the Spirit of God move in the lives of students so that they are bearing fruit—and much fruit in the their lives today. When God asks me to do something that is beyond my capacity, and I hear the voice in my head say, "I can't do that!", I am learning to see that, "I can't, but God can do it through me!"
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