When You Feel Ill-Equipped

Do you ever feel like the task, the vision God’s given you is too big, too daunting for you?

Me too.

Sometimes it’s the smaller tasks and sometimes it’s the bigger vision.  It can seem overwhelming, can’t it?

He says, “I want you to speak at such and such,” and all I can think of is a million reasons why I’m not the person for the job. 

I don’t know the culture of the people.

I don’t know what I’d say.

I’m not good at speaking.

Or He shows us a picture of this big vision we’re headed towards.  It’s exhilarating and exactly what we were made for! …But it’s daunting and defeating all at the same time.

Overwhelmedness washes over me and “you’re too small” lies begin to slam me.  I run through my list of excuses and slink down in despair.  I don’t know where or how to start.  Then I hear His gentle whisper, “Remember David?”

David.  The little guy.  The one who everyone said was too small for the job.  The guy who didn’t have military training, or right-fitting equipment.  He didn’t even have the proper weapon for the job.  It was just him, and those little stones, and a crazy faith in a God who said He would conquer. 

Though “untrained” he was perfectly equipped.  Though people believed he couldn’t, he believed God could.

‘Cause here’s what David knew and what I need to cling onto:

If God asks you to do something, you’re the right person for the job.

If God says you’ll conquer the giant, you’re going to conquer the giant.  He’s going to make it happen.  All you have to do is show up.

Show up.

Take the next step.

Do the thing He said to do.

Say you will speak.

Conquer the giant.

Move toward the vision He said He would fulfill.

God told His kids that He, (yes, HE) was going to conquer the giants.  The “conquer” was not dependent on their skill, their training, their equipment, their strength or their numbers.  Their victory was reliant on God who said “conquer,” and a guy who believed Him and showed up for the match.

If God asks you to do something, you’re the right person for the job.

YOU are the one.  God knew your “smallness” and He sees your not-equippedness, and your million excuses, and it doesn’t scare Him one bit.  He always thought you were the right one for the job.

‘Cause with Jesus entire cities are conquered with a shout and a trumpet blast.  Raging seas are stilled with two simple words.  The tiniest and the “least significant” are the mightiest and the most effective.  

In Jesus, with Jesus, nothing is impossible.  By His hand you can do anything He has called you to do.