Week 2, Day 5

I hope that you are encouraged after reading today's lesson.  Sometimes we feel helpless or useless.  We wonder what do we have to offer God.  How can He use us to impact a people in Guatemala?  Sometimes insecurity or guilt paralyzes us into thinking that we are of no value to God.  That is a very wrong perspective of ourselves and of our God.  God doesn't need our skills or abilities.  He doesn't need us to possess certain skills for us to be useful to Him.  God is more concerned about our hearts then our hands.  He wants us to be fully surrendered to Him rather then talented.  this should encourage us when we don't feel talented.  But it should also warn us and give us pause when we do feel talented.  I pray that I never feel so talented that I buy into the notion that "Ok, God, I'm good, let's go do great things together."  Yeah... that would be pretty stupid of me.