Equipped

Have you ever been asked to do something and felt completely unworthy of the ask?

Have you ever sensed God calling you toward something, but everything about your life as it currently stands seems to argue against it? Your background, your limitations, your track record, your insecurities. All of it lining up to make what feels like a very reasonable case for why He must have the wrong person.

You would not be the first.

Moses did exactly this. When God called him to lead an entire nation out of bondage, Moses did not say yes. He said he was not eloquent enough. He made his case clearly and confidently, as if God had somehow overlooked his speech impediment when selecting him for the assignment. As if the One who created his mouth had not already accounted for everything, Moses thought disqualified him.

We do the same thing. We tell God we are not educated enough, not experienced enough, not polished enough, not healed enough. We point to the gaps and the wounds and the areas where we clearly do not fit the description of the person we imagine this calling requires. And we wait for Him to agree with us and move on to someone more suitable.

He rarely does.

Here is what I have come to understand. We are Kingdom citizens living under the reign of a King, and Kings give assignments. As a friend recently said to me, when you are in the army, and you are told to deploy, you deploy. You do not first negotiate whether the assignment matches your personality profile. You do not wait until you feel ready. You move because of who is giving the order and what you know about their authority.

It is the same for us. Not every assignment God gives will feel tailor-made for our strengths. Not every calling will conveniently sidestep our fears. Some of it will feel too big, too unfamiliar, too far outside of what we know ourselves to be capable of. And that is not a design mistake. That is the design.

But here is what makes our King different from every other authority. He dialogues with His people. He reasons with us. He has conversations. Sometimes He explains the why, sometimes the what, sometimes the how. And even when He does not give us the full picture, we can rest in the fact that His love for us is not in question, and His plans are larger than our limitations.

1 Thessalonians 5:24 says it simply: "The one who calls you is faithful, and He will do it." Not He might do it if you figure out the first few steps on your own. He will do it. The calling and the equipping come from the same source. He does not extend an invitation and then leave you to work out the rest alone.

So today, can you trust Him with the size of what He has placed in your heart? Can you shift your eyes from the gap between who you are and who the calling seems to require, and fix them instead on the vastness of the One who is calling you? He who called you is faithful to lead you, walk with you, and equip you for everything He has asked you to carry.

You are not the wrong person. You are exactly who He had in mind.