If you feel that you’re incomplete, ineffective, or
inconspicuous, you’re in good company. If we were all brutally honest, we are
but that’s okay. We are all incomplete because God is working on molding and
shaping us into what He sees us to be. Each of us, are in a uniquely personal
place in Christ. Although we follow Him, we are separate in our walk and
understanding of His purpose for us. I liken it to a masterful jigsaw puzzle
where the box doesn’t tell us how many pieces there are, or show what the
finished image should look like. Regardless of age, when we think of our
journey with God, having a feeling of being incomplete should bring us some
degree of comfort. It tells us that He is never finished with us.
As far as being ineffective, I’m sure that feeling comes and
goes like the tides. When we wonder if our own efforts and contributions really
matter, we are both tempted, and rewarded. Satan would have you think that
believing in a God that we can’t see is pointless, let alone serving Him. Yet,
God rewards us with the peace of knowing that Satan has to fight every day for
any victory of our failing. That my friends’, is where we are most effective.
Whenever we come along side someone and lift them up, God wins. When you are
lifted up by someone’s prayers, you win, and when we do what we can to feed our
“spirit-man”, we all win. I believe that those who signed up to serve our
country to fight for our freedom, went knowing that even one person’s effort
would make a difference. So you see, regardless of how or what we do in service
for the Lord, we are never ineffective.
Feeling inconspicuous may not be so bad. God allowed Jesus
to arrive that way in order to evade Herod. He lived as a human, relatively
inconspicuous, until God’s chosen time for Him to begin His ministry. God’s
plan was to have Jesus be one of us, among us. His ministry was never
self-serving, it was God-serving. In this age of social acceptance and
self-admiration, it is easy to be offended when we are not noticed by the
world, so be inconspicuous is uncomfortable to most people. We’re not the
Pharisee, so anonymity in serving our King should feel like a warm blanket. So now
I hope you have a better understanding of how the thoughts of being incomplete,
ineffective, or inconspicuous may in them-self be a blessing in disguise.
Mike Shindruk
www.mastershandministry.blogspot.com
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