I Can’t Do It
I can’t do it. That is what I said many years ago when I became a Christian. Sixth grade, sitting in a pew on a Wednesday night. I had spent a year trying to change myself. I had even gotten a clean slate to start over with as we had moved from Minnesota to North Carolina. Yet there I was, in trouble at school - again. So I told God that I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t change myself. That’s when He answered saying that He didn’t expect me to. He just wanted me to allow Him to do it. And He did it - over time.
Now, I sit here looking at what is before us. So far I have seen God sell our house (which I didn’t know if it ever would), complete some Seminary courses (I know I couldn’t do those on my own), raise up people who pray for us faithfully, provided all the money needed for our moving costs and provide a place for us to live in the mean time. I have also seen God raise over 70% of a daunting amount of needed ongoing financial support; more than twice as much as most missionaries need not going to Europe. It is so reassuring to know that I can’t do it. If it were up to me, we would never have gotten to 25%. Our house would never had sold. I definitely would not have gotten through any more schooling.
It is all up to God. Just as I put my faith into God to make the changes in me that I so desired as a child, I now can put my faith in God for raising the rest of our support. Why? Because its all for God’s glory. Not mine, not Krista’s, not our church’s. Its all His. As people join us in this ministry, it is not recognition of what Krista and I are capable of - it’s revealing the great power that God is!!
So to all of you that are partnering with us, thank you for being open to being used by God to reveal His Awesomeness to us and those that our ministry will affect. God bless.
(Pardon to those of you that are reading this thinking that Christians speak too much about money and giving. However, it is how we view money that can reveal a lot about how we view God. I’d love to talk to you more about this if you would want to)
