Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. –Lloyd George
Have you ever had one of those "I can't" attitudes?
"Pues Dios no nos has dado un espiritu de timidez sino de poder, de amor y de dominio propio."
"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline."
2 Timothy 1:7
On Tuesday night of this week, Pastor Maicol, (the youth leader) shared a message titled Lo grandeza de lo pequeño, or the greatness of the little. It was a great reminder of things I have heard before, and of the greatness of God.
Why say "but I can't?"
God always delighted in taking the little and making great things of it.
It doesn't mean I will ever be Big, but great isn't BIG. Sometimes great is little.
If God says that I can, why am I going to believe a lie.
LIE: I can't. TRUTH: I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
Imagine the awe and wonder of a baby. It starts from something invisible but yet full of power. It starts with passion. You can't measure it and its too little to touch. But its quality creates many things, a baby, dreams, great things.
Maicol talked about the mustard seed. The Bible says that if we come to him with just a mustard seed of faith, we can see mountains be shaken!
I have had the habit of trying to do more. Feeling that what I was doing was not enough, and always pushing to do more. However, the more that was added to the plate, the more I was feeling unsuccessful. Was I really doing things for God? Was my heart or service in the right place?
I am praying,
Lord,
Help me to do the best I can for you. Whether I fail or whether I succeed, I give all my works into your hands. I ask you to keep and purify my heart. May I have the kind of self discipline that you have given me, and may my moments be in your hands.
Forgive me for giving too much time to others and not enough to you. I ask your help in saying no and in trusting. I thank you that everything that I do in service to you in enough.
I thank God because everything I have is His and he has blessed me with good health, great friends, support, the ability to reason and learn, the heart that loves others, and he has given me every opportunity that comes my way. He has used me, even when I have had an "I can't" attitude.
When I have failed in my own eyes, He has still found something successful that He has accomplished in me, and He has still brought glory to his name!
HE is not finished refining me and making me like him, and the process is so beautiful and worth it.
"Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15
