JANUARY 9 DEVOTION BIBLE READING: ACTS 1:1-8
You have heard it said..."God is not looking for your ability...He is looking for your availability." Somewhere, sometime, we got it in our heads that the Lord is looking for the most talented, most gifted, most popular, those with the most money, in order to do His work. This is far from the truth. The Lord doesn't look around and say, "Let me see who is the top prospect, with the greatest stats, so I can get them on My team." Untrue, the work that God is calling us to is His supernatural work and it cannot be done by human strength...human giftedness...human talent. It is only done by His supernatural power. Have you noticed yet that God does not do things the way humans do things, or has it been hard for you to see that because the church spends more time listening to the world, than it does listening to the Holy Spirit and reading the Bible!
Look at the twelve that Jesus chose to be His Disciples. There was nothing extraordinary about these men; they were common men. They would have been some of the least qualified to be the ones entrusted with establishing the Lord's church. And even after three years of intense training in the presence of the Master, the Lord did not say, "Okay, now you have seen Me do all these things, now go out and do the same thing." He said, "And you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses of Me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the uttermost parts of the world." It was when they had received the gift of the Holy Spirit that they were made qualified to the Lord's work. Another truism that is shown here is, "The Lord does not call the gifted, He gifts the called." The Lord desires to show Himself great in the lives of His people. The world does not need to see humanly talented and gifted people trying to be the church. The world needs to see Jesus in His followers and every believer is "qualified" for that. Jesus in you...is what makes all the difference, for it is never us, it is always Him. Praise God...He can use anybody!
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