Occasionally, there are days like today when I feel as though I'm in basic training for the army. I'm sore, both inside and out. I spent a good portion of my Saturday digging ditches and lifting heavy objects, because our church decided to relocate its electric feed underground. I spent a hefty bit of my Sunday singing, singing, and...oh, did I mention singing? My back hurts, my shoulders hurt, my knees hurt...even my gut muscles are sore, to the point that it hurts to cough.
To some degree, I'd have to say that what I'm going through now would qualify as army training, albeit not for the U.S. Army. As the song goes, I may never shoot the artillery, but I'm in the Lord's army. God is preparing me to be a true serviceman. How? By serving. The best way to learn is by doing. I freely admit that, in the majority of the ways I serve, I don't know what I'm doing. I fly by the seat of my pants most of the time.
The best part is that I wouldn't have it any other way. I rarely feel more alive than when I'm serving the Lord in total dependence on Him for everything I need. I don't know exactly what He's preparing me for, but I do know that whatever it is, it's going to be great. Why? Because God created man for one purpose - to glorify Himself. He trains us for that same purpose. Therefore, whatever I'm being trained for, it will ultimately be for His glory, and that makes it great!
Father, whatever you're doing in my life right now, please don't stop. Never before has it felt so good to be molded and stretched. May you be glorified in the life You have given me. Amen.
"Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?" - Romans 9:21
"But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand." - Isaiah 64:8
To some degree, I'd have to say that what I'm going through now would qualify as army training, albeit not for the U.S. Army. As the song goes, I may never shoot the artillery, but I'm in the Lord's army. God is preparing me to be a true serviceman. How? By serving. The best way to learn is by doing. I freely admit that, in the majority of the ways I serve, I don't know what I'm doing. I fly by the seat of my pants most of the time.
The best part is that I wouldn't have it any other way. I rarely feel more alive than when I'm serving the Lord in total dependence on Him for everything I need. I don't know exactly what He's preparing me for, but I do know that whatever it is, it's going to be great. Why? Because God created man for one purpose - to glorify Himself. He trains us for that same purpose. Therefore, whatever I'm being trained for, it will ultimately be for His glory, and that makes it great!
Father, whatever you're doing in my life right now, please don't stop. Never before has it felt so good to be molded and stretched. May you be glorified in the life You have given me. Amen.
"Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?" - Romans 9:21
"But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand." - Isaiah 64:8
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