Written by Aubree Stuzman

What do you feel like God is calling you to? How impossible does it feel? What is your reason for avoiding or putting it off?

Is It Just a Feeling?

I am sure you know that God doesn’t always call us to things that feel easy. It’s actually more likely that it feels impossible than possible. That’s common. Sometimes it’s more about how the thing feels to us than it is how difficult it will actually be. Often it feels impossible. But let’s consider for a moment that, that’s the point.

Perfect Plans

Sometimes it feels impossible because we can’t do it “the right way”. Or because we might not do it “perfectly”. We may let the hard stuff stop us because we don’t think we can do it as well as we think it should be done. But what if the point is that we can’t? God’s plan is made perfect in our “it’s too hard”. So maybe what we are supposed to do is try anyways and let God work.

God’s Role

The fact is if God has called us to it, He has a role in it. How many times do you hear someone say that what God called them to was easy? The answer is probably never. So when you feel called to do something and you can’t get there on your own maybe it’s so that there’s room for God. He has a way of making things that seem impossible happen.

God’s Got History

Take a minute and accept a presentation of God’s track record. This is not an extensive history by any means. David wasn’t the king, at least not yet. He faced a giant that literal whole armies couldn’t beat. He was the youngest and the smallest; to man a last resort at best. But to God, he was the how. Mary was a young woman, a virgin betrothed. But God saw her heart. In a time when she normally would have been publicly stoned. But God gave Joseph a heart to see. Once again God made the most unlikely candidate the one chosen for the task. Saul wasn’t the number one persecutor of Christians. Then God met him where he was; on that road, on another mission to destroy the Christians. Then Saul became Paul. The same man that had been earthly enemy number one became the number one missionary of all times. Despite all the odds and trials God used Paul greatly. Elizabeth was older. She was childless because she was unable to conceive. In that part of the world especially in that time they would have been looked at very poorly because of their childlessness. But God chose them. Elizabeth went from childless to the mother of the Lord’s messenger. 

Carry On

More often than not God calls us to the hard things. In those hard things we often don’t see our strength when others do. But they also see God’s strength. Don’t let the hard stop you. Carry on, disciple, carry on.