Destined for Greatness: Have Faith in your capabilities
Your Tuesday morning Inspiration with Gerald Chinogara
The current information age has seen an explosion and easy access to knowledge. In this age a lot of people can easily intimidate you with their level of proficiency. This might result in you being tempted to
disqualify yourself from opportunities because you doubt if you have enough capacity, brain power and strength to deliver a worthy contribution. However, you always need to be conscious of the fact that you always have enough to take on any challenge when God is with you. Please note that I am not prescribing blind faith that goes against common sense but referring to situations where you know that if you give it all you have, you have what it takes to make a difference but find yourself burying you head in the sand instead of grabbing the opportunity.
In Judges 6, when God instructs Gideon to go in the strength he has, Gideon cowers and gives lame excuses to disqualify himself from rising to the occasion because he thought that he lacked the competencies, and his strength was not enough. What’s so incredible is how God responds by telling him, “I will be with you.” The same is true for us, with God, even the little bit is enough. Jesus said, “If you have
faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” This means that if you have even a tiny seed of faith, with God
that is enough.
When God promises to be with us, He doesn’t just mean He will walk alongside us as a companion. He means He will supply us with His power. Peter reminds us that it is God’s divine power that has given
us everything we need to live a godly life that is victorious. It may not look or feel like it, but we can trust that as long as we are leaning into who He is, His glory and goodness, we will have everything we need and it will be enough since our true and authentic sufficiency is in Him. Keep in mind that when God looks at you, He sees His child. And if God who is truth says something about you, then it must be true.
