Who you are and what you stand for is important. Realize it or not you have a testimony to give today. How you present yourself and the message others see in you is pertinent. Sometimes we are the only Bible others have to see or go by and that makes you extraordinary and unique.
Realize it or not God is going to use you today. The things you say and the choices you make are indicative of who God is in you and you have to understand others are watching carefully. We may think no one notices or cares but that is far from the truth. It is the little things, the seemingly mindless no brainer that make a difference in not only our lives but the lives of others. God uses those on a day to day basis. It is the smile or helping hand you offer to someone else, it is the kind word and reassuring hug, it is the gift you give of yourself that makes a difference in someone else’s life.
Who you and where you’ve been is what determines where you are going and why. God never promised it would be easy or fun. In fact, you can be pretty sure some of the experiences will be the toughest and hardest you will ever have to handle or experience. The good thing is you are not in this all alone. You don’t have to fly solo. Your message is your calling. It is how God is going to utilize you and it is your fuel for thought, your lesson to share and what God needs you to do.
You may ask yourself, “What could I possibly have to share with others? What can they learn from me?” Don’t ever sell yourself short. You are a holy and righteous child of the living God. Even with all your little quirks, faults, idiosyncrasies, burdens, mistakes and screw ups God loves you and you are special. Don’t ever forget that. So you don’t feel holy; so you struggle and have issues. Don’t we all! We are the clay in the hands of the potter and he is molding us and using us to make us better. He is also using that to make others better as well. We are an unfinished, unrefined, ongoing in progress work of God Almighty. Don’t ever forget that.
Stand up tall, take a deep breath and look around. Be proud and humble in who you are and who God is in you. We all have something to share, something to give to others, some testimony to show how God is working and changing us and that give others hope and inspiration. It is the message God wants us to share. My goodness, if there is hope for me there certainly must be optimism and hope for others. If God can change you and I think what he can do with someone else.
We rarely get it right and we always have 20/20 hindsight. All of us have said at one point in time “if only”, “what if”, or “why”! All of us look back and wish we had done things differently. All of us can see how things might have been better or different if we had been thinking or made different choices. The important thing is to keep moving and looking forward. Let God use you and give him all that stuff you can’t handle. He has been carrying loads for a long time, he knows the routine and more importantly he knows the reasons and the method for the madness.
God has a message tucked into your heart. Inside you are the testimony someone else needs to see. You are God’s avenue for someone else to get to know him. The burden is there and the struggle is a ribbon of hope and faith for someone to embrace and grasp by seeing God in you.
What is your message today? Each struggle and difficulty you have is God’s way of using and showing others what he can do. We may never understand it we may never realize it and we may never grasp how it all comes together. That isn’t our job that is God’s job. Our job is to follow his promptings, depend on him, and pray for him to use us and walk us through it and let it go at that. Sometimes it is hard, sometimes it makes no sense and most of the time we never see or know about the seed that we planted or watered. God tends to all that. You are the messenger. You are the runner and the courier. You are the Bible others read when there isn’t another one around. Can you do it? I don’t know, maybe or maybe not! Can God do it in you? Of course, he can! He does it every minute of every day. Don’t ever underestimate how God is using you. Never undervalue how God is going to use what you know, who you are and the trials you have seen to help someone else.
You are special. Remember God don’t make no junk. Get up, regroup, take a stand and go forward Christian soldier because today is a new day!
