So, you have no appreciable skills.
You can’t teach, your prayers are one sentence at best, and as an example for good living … well, you’re not much of one.
You’re doing good to show up at church, and on a good Sunday, you can even drop something in the offering plate as it passes you.
How can you do anything for God? Everyone is more qualified than you.
God tells you three times that where you start doesn’t matter.
You can pick any of these three passages, as they are retellings of the same story: Matthew 13:31–32, Mark 4:30–32, and Luke 13:18–19.
Let’s take the first one. No reason, just because.
“The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”
You are that mustard seed. You can’t teach yet. But you can grow your skills. Prayers? The more you pray, the more you can pray. And as an example for good living, that’s begun one day at a time, one afternoon at a time, one hour at a time.
Each one of those people you consider more qualified than you started out as a mustard seed. They grew their faith in God and what he could do with their lives, and now, they’ve become a tree.
Your growth starts today. Plant your trust in God, and you will one day become the example you want to be.
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