Lately, I’ve been wrestling with why Christians are content with being stuck. During Sunday’s sermon, I began to ponder this even more. If we have identified certain giftings or spiritual-bends within ourselves, why on Earth are we sitting on them. I know for sure that God has not called us to a personal salvation…like, if you have the gift of preaching, you just preach to yourself. What kind of sense does that make?
It’s not for a lack of “want to”, but we will come up with any excuse “not to”. Kids. Time. Money. Those seem to be the most popular. Granted, these all need to be taken into consideration, but not be the scapegoat. I’m a huge believer in the saying, “A person will do what they want to do or what’s important to them.” Taking it further, nothing will stand in a persons way or they will do what has to be done to make it happen.
Think of it this way: You’re thirsty, I mean, DYING of thirst…lips chapped, mouth parched, can barely speak, thirsty. You walk in the room and there sits a glorious glass of water AND it’s free…no charge…all you have to do is ask for it or accept it when offered. But you don’t take it because your kids need you or you don’t have the time. So now, you just walk around thirsty. You think of that glass of water from time to time, and you know where it is, but it just sits there…waiting on you.
That’s what I believe some of us are doing with this gift that God has given us. We know it’s there, but we aren’t taking advantage of it. We’d rather sit and pray about what God wants us to do with it and wait for His answer. But while we’re waiting, we get stuck. Stuck in the everydayness of life. We are offered ways to get connected and develop and grow deeper, but we’ll come up with every excuse not to.
How would you answer if God stood before you, and asked what you did with His gift? You’d start stuttering and coming up with excuses. Maybe, while you are stalling to come up with a good excuse, He’d just press the play button and you’d see all the opportunities that were available. What would you say then?
No more excuses…just pick up the glass of water and let God work out everything else.
