Ok so I have been talking about how incapable I feel to minister to people in the situation I find myself in as a chaplaincy intern. I read in scripture when I am weak, he is strong, that he will equip me for every good work and I believe it all. I have experienced this first hand, yet the human part of me cannot help but be anxious and hesitant and frankly wanting to run and hide some days. This devotional reading came to me today. Watchman Nee wrote the following and it says it all:
I believe many people are so rich and strong that they give no ground for God to work. I frequently recall the words, "helpless and hopeless." I must tell God, "all that I have is yours, I myself have nothing. Apart from you I am truly helpless and hopeless." We need to have such a dependent attitude toward God that it is as if we cannot inhale or exhale without Him. In this way we shall see that our power as well as our holiness all comes from Him. Oh how God delights in seeing us coming hopeless and helpless to Him. A brother once asked me, "What is the condition for the working of the Spirit?" To which I replied that . . . the Holy Spirit must first bring us to a place where we can do nothing by ourselves.
"My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power" (1 Corinthians 2:3-5).
It's a hard place to find yourself but truly find yourself you will!
1 comment:
I agree with you. Beautiful quote from Nee. It's so easy to think we are the center of everything, and that nothing could be accomplished without us.
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