Christians so often talk about how God is really beginning to work in such and such a church or ministry to someone's life. Many then get the idea that what we need to do is wait until God is ready to do His stuff in our lives. I know not everyone takes it this way but a lot really think that while things weren't going well that God really wasn't working. It wasn't that God wasn't working. It was that we weren't allowing God to work through us.
I have always been challenged by the rebuke Jesus gave to Peter. “Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling-block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”” Matthew 16:23, NIV. Peter was holding Jesus back. Jesus could have run right over the top of Peter in His pursuit of salvation for all but He didn't. He wanted Peter to allow God to work through Peter. And that's what He want for you and me. (I know I am preaching but it is hard for a preacher not to preacher. Be patient with me)
God is always at work. He works at 100% every single day of the work. Whether we are awake or asleep God is working. He, like rust, never sleeps. He never forgets us or gets too busy with something else to pay attention to our part of the kingdom.
If this is true (and it is), why isn't God working powerfully in your life? There are two of us at the table and if God is bringing all that He chooses (which is a lot) it must be me that is not bringing to the table what I need to have the empowered spiritual life that He wants me to have. I don't have much. What can I bring? Bring a faith that works and you will unleash the power of God. He has never stopped trying with you. You and I have been holding Him back in our lives.
Please God, forgive my lack of faith in you and lack of effort in your name. Hang in there with me. I may be slow but I'm picking up speed.
