Recently, I have taken on a lot more responsibility at work.  For the first time, I have been given the chance to completely change and run a ministry on my own!  Such an incredible opportunity, but like I said: it is the first time I have attempted it.

My mind was plagued with stress and all these different things I needed to do.  I continually wanted to prove that I deserved this new position, but the stress seemed to be slowly strangling me.

One day I was at lunch with a friend and was telling her about this new responsibility and how I feel God had sent me because I was available, not qualified and how I desperately wanted to prove myself.  She said something that really changed my perspective.  “TC, how cool is it that God sent you to a place that you were unqualified and undeserving!  That means He is going to do something incredible and you get to be a part of it!”

She was so right.  So often in our lives we try to prove to God that we are worthy of salvation, grace, love, opportunity. When in reality we are not.  Jesus had to die in order to restore our relationship with God.  Instead of trying to prove our worth, we need to be glad that God is allowing us to be a part of His awesome and fantastic plan even though we are unqualified.  God doesn’t accomplish things through our strength, but through His power.  He does not look for the qualified, but the willing, the available.  Forget qualification, be available.

“This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the LORD of hosts.” (Zechariah 4:6)