He Asks For Who We Are: (how what you have is enough to give, and why)

Currently I am in the throws of preparing for a season of camp ministry close to St. Joseph, Missouri. 


This will be my fifth (and final) summer doing so.


It would be a lie to say there aren't many mixed emotions involved in the process of preparing. I am choosing to make this my last time there not because there are some "divisions", "quarrels" or "scandals" about the place. It served me well, and I have given my all serving the people there. I am leaving because the direction He intends me to pursue with my life now lies elsewhere.


But please, do not let your eyes glaze over at my reasonings.


I am writing you today because I want to assure you that although life changes - and we may feel both vastly in awe of what is ahead and astounded at how we shall rise up to meet these new callings:


What is necessary is not that we should have every issue resolved or each doubt silenced. If we are to step out of the wardrobe and into a world as wild and wondrous as Narnia - all that He asks of us is that we be willing.


In 1 Kings 17:8-16, we read of a widow from the town of Zarephath. When Elijah came to her doorstep asking for food, she barely had enough to feed her and her son one last time. To her, what she had wasn't enough - but by giving it over found an abundance of need met.


Exodus 2 tells us of the birth of Moses - how his mother, Jochebed, set him aboard a basket in the Nile. What could she have been hoping for? It was her faith and refusal to hand over her child to Egyptian executioners that saved his life - and ultimately delivered the Israelites from the hand of Pharaoh.


In the same fashion, Mary entrusts her body and her unknown future to Him whom she knows in Luke 1. It was her willingness to bear "He Himself [who] is our peace... and has broken down in His flesh the dividing wall of hostility" that ushered in the avenue for Hope. 


The lives of these women demonstrate for us that "The people God uses don't have to know a lot of things, or have a lot of things - they just have to need Him a lot." (Sally Lloyd Jones)


Wherever this post may find you in your life, dear reader - let it carry to you this knowledge. I want you to remember that just because you may not always know what you're doing or feel confident in your abilities - God is not limited by our limits. 


So please - keep stepping out, speaking up and contributing whatever little or much you feel like you have. However His call finds you - do it scared, do it trembling, do it joyously, or full of anticipation and celebration. 


All He asks is that we're willing.

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