Answering God's Call on Your Life: When Will Matters More Than Ability

This article is part of a two parts series (maybe three... I don't know yet) focusing on finding your purpose in life. About a week ago, I was blessed to attend a concert of Hillsong United as part of their Empires 2.0 Tour to promote the release of their new album - Empires. It was an amazing experience where they gathered the children of God and led them into FOUR Hours!! of PURE worship and praise to our Lord and Savior. Four hours during which we all surrendered to our Lord, willing to let Him have His way through us and do whatever He had planned for us that specific day. Some people might say Four hours is a lot; they might say they are not able to do it and humanly speaking it is perfectly understandable. But then I realized that serving God has nothing to do with our abilities and all to do with our availability.

Because the truth is serving God is not easy: it is beyond any human strength and the time, efforts, emotions required to do it cannot be sustained by ourselves. Not only that, but as we consider that we are flawed creatures, with weaknesses and limitations, it only makes sense that only God can give us the ability to serve Him. And that is the reason why I said higher that God isn't questioning our abilities: He knows that by ourselves we cannot. The only question He is asking is "Are you available? Are you willing to give me your time? Are you willing to give me your all so that I can use you to heal broken hearts, bring salvation to those who are lost, grace to those who are condemned by their sins and deliver those who are held captives?"

God cares about whether or not we would be willing to let Him touch people and change lives through us the exact same way He used other people to do it for us!

I used to be scared to serve the Lord. You know how you can kill a cockroach when it is on the floor but the minute it starts flying you're just like... Nope... and you just take off? Yeah.. I was scared like that (no shame whatsoever in admitting it!). I was terrified. I had no problem being a Christian and a follower of Christ (no typo here: you can be a follower and not be a christian) and a doer of the Word. But serving God? I was like... Bye ✌
Why? because I told myself: I can't preach, I can't pray that long, I can't lay hands on people, I can't do this or that... The list was long! But then it took me two things to unlock my will and desire to serve God.

Situation 1: could be represented (almost) as me being zealous for doing the things God as called us to do as Christian and live (as much as possible) according to the word
Situation 2: Did somebody say Serve God? 👀 🏃🏃🏃

1) We all have a different call upon our lives

God has called us, each to something specific and we have to pray for God to help us figure out what it is. Serving God is not only preaching or singing or those great things we think it is and that scare us. Serving God could be praying for other people when you pray at home. Serving God could be exercising the gift of liberality He has bestowed upon you. It could be by providing words of encouragements to people and help them go through their hardship. It could be through showing the love of God by relieving those who are in need. There are SO MANY WAYS to serve God. You just have to pray and ask God where He wants you to be, what He wants you to do and the minute the have the answer to those prayers just ask Him for directions on how to do it.

2) God will always give you the resources you need

One of the many wise persons I have had the honor to share my walk with Christ once said : "God will never give you a vision without the provision". The moment we decide to serve God and to let Him work through us and with us, He will give us all we need. It is at this moment that intervenes the notion of ability: God gives us the ability to serve Him. Sure there will be hard times, there will be peaks and valleys but the God who has called us will provide us with EVERYTHING we need and He will carry us through it all.

Sure there will be raging storms and we will have to navigate our ways on raging seas but as long as we rely on God and keep our eyes about the waves, we will get to destination safely.

To you, who have received Christ, His grace, mercy and light, wherever you are, whoever you are, not matter how old you are, I pray that you do not keep it to yourself. There are people suffering, walking in the darkness, waiting on you to experience peace, freedom, salvation, deliverance or maybe receive that love they never did. It doesn't have to be something big: it could be a simple gesture such as smile or a word of encouragement using the Word of God or even sharing this post 😉

Whatever it is, I pray that you find it and that you let God use you and that you let His light shine through you.