“I don’t think I’m ready” ~Prince Caspian
“It’s for that very reason you are” ~Aslan
Often when we don’t feel ready to do what God calls us to. It’s then that we are ready, because it’s that insecurity in our abilities that makes us dependent on God. So it’s God working through us, not our own abilities, so we cannot boast in ourselves but in him alone.
One of my teachers when I first started preaching, reminded me that nerves are good when preaching. Because it keeps us conscious of God, his will, his words, his power and his direction. If we were completely confident in ourselves. We would have no need for him. But it’s because we know our own imperfection and instead find our confidence in him, that we can shine him best.
Don’t let nerves hold you back from what you know God has called you to do. Instead use those nerves to depend on him and REFLECT God to others, not ourselves.
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. -Ephesians 3:14-21
