God Wants To Use To Use You -- Even -- You !!

Yes God's Work is Sovereign -- God's Work is Supreme.

But our work, in God's Name -- is vital and required as well.  And so recognize God as Supreme -- and don't overwork.  Develop a healthy rhythm, and take breaks.  Remember the Sabbath.

But then rise up and serve the Lord and do your part -- do your work -- in whatever occupation your chose.

For God's best work - God's best ministry doesn't happen through pastors or professional ministers. 

But God's best ministry happens in the marketplace -- in schools -- in government offices -- as you live out your true vocation -- which is not your occupation --  whether teaching, managing money or some other professional role.  

But being a servant of Jesus -- letting His light shine, through your broken, but available 'form and frame.'

There’s a classic piece about God’s willingness to use broken, surrendered folk.  For many doubt that God could ever use us.  But the next time you doubt remember -- just remember your Bible.  

• That Noah was a drunk.  
• Abraham was too old.
• Isaac was a daydreamer.  
• Jacob was a liar. 
• Leah was ugly. 
• Joseph was abused. 
• Moses had a stuttering problem. 
• Gideon was afraid. 
• Sampson was a womanizer. 
• Rahab was a prostitute.
• Jeremiah and Timothy were too young. 
• David had an affair. 
• Elijah was suicidal. 
• Isaiah preached naked. 
• Jonah ran from God. 
• Naomi was a widow. 
• Job went bankrupt. 
• John the Baptist ate bugs.
• Peter denied Christ. 
• The Disciples couldn’t stay awake praying. 
• Martha worried about everything.  
• The Samaritan woman was divorced. 
• Zacchaeus was too small. 
• Paul was too religious. 
• Timothy had an ulcer.  
• And Lazarus was dead!”        

Yes -- remember your Bible, and remember that God wants to use even you.

Yes – you’re broken.  Yes, you’re sinful.  

But if you’re available, willing and surrendered – who knows what God will do with you!

And so go forth wondering, praying:  who knows what God will do with me?!  

For when our work becomes ultimately the work of God -- transforming, enlightening outcomes result – far brighter than those of any mere occupation.  

Now don’t do the work of God as if God is not working.  Translated:  recognize His Sovereignty. 'Take a  breath.’ Remember the rhythm of  Sabbath.  

But then rise up and work nevertheless – giving heart, mind and soul not to widgets or the bottom line – but to the Kingdom of God, God’s upside down Kingdom, that majors in:

•  small things, not big things
•  overlooked things, not  prominent things 
•  discarded things, not cherished  things.  

Breathing into everything -- even the least, lost and lonely...

                                          ...the very breath of God

                                         ...the very breath of life!