If not now, when?
If not you, who?
I have found that most of us are pretty good at qualifying and disqualifying ourselves in various aspects of life. Areas we feel secure about quickly become qualifications that others should just as quickly recognize and praise. And the areas we feel more insecure are immediate deadends and disqualifications; ignored, hidden, and riddled with excuses - or possibly insufficiencies we pour our energies into fixing.
"Follow me and I will make you fish for people..." Mark 1:17
In scriptures we see that when Jesus called His disciples, the command "follow me" was connected with a promise "I will make you."
The command to "follow me" is a clear invitation for relationship, which is where Jesus begins with all of us.
The promise "will make" is clearly focused on Jesus' activity, not ours. The word "make" is translated from the Greek verb poieo, which is the root of the words "poem" and "poetry". He is forming and crafting our lives as an author writes a story.
He doesn't call the qualified. He qualifies the called.
How has God written a story through your life?
Are you still disqualifying yourself? Or are you following and letting Him do the making?
"... you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God." II Cor. 3:3-5
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