Week 46: AM I QUALIFIED?

So I wanted you to know something. It’s ok to not look like you have it all figured out. Yup. Don’t have the pedigree, the training, the experience?  Don’t think that disqualifies you.

Have you heard the Lord doesn’t call the qualified; He qualifies the called?  Well, my wife and I were talking to our pastors recently about qualifying. And it really got me thinking. How does the Lord qualify those he calls anyway?  The answer might surprise you, but I think it’s humility.

How did he qualify Joseph before he was in charge of all of Egypt?  Thrown in a pit, sold into slavery, two times in prison, once falsely accused. How about Moses whom he called to set an entire nation free?  After living in the palace all his life, God sent him to the desert for 40 years to tend sheep.  How’s that for demotion?  Even Jesus, the God man, IMMEDIATELY after Father spoke his delight over him at his baptism, went into the wilderness for 40 days to be tested before beginning his ministry that changed the world.

Why do we forget that in the midst of pursuing the calling and promises God has for us?  We may feel like we aren’t able, that we don’t have what it takes, or that maybe we’ve missed God’s directive. No, friend. The truth is that you are the apple of our Dad’s eye. He has a call on your life. And to embrace that will require some pain. Some demotion. Some roads that seem to lead away from the promise. Embrace the path of humility. Learn to lean on him. Go low and go slow. And wait for Him to do what only he can do!

“So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor.”

1 Peter 5:6