Passionately pleading for God to use us is like passionately pleaing for fire to be hot or for water to be wet. God by his very nature uses people. Yet we have cultvaited for ourselves a unwritten theology that we must persuade God to use us to accomplish his plans. It's as if he were determined to use angels or seaphim or the perpetually bowing elders to build his kingdom, and we try to convincehim with our passion and our logic ans our sheer resolve to let us do it instead. So we imagine that we twist his arm until he cries uncle and finally days," Oh, all right. Go ahead and do some work for my kingdom if you must." Friend, understand that serving God to advance his kingdom's dominion on the earth is not something we have to beg him to do, it's something he has already chosen for us. It is hard-wired into our very being to respond affirmatively to this choice of his.
In the Meantime
by Rob Brendle
This totaly makes sense in my life right now. How come I didnt realize it before. I keep asking God to use me, it shouldnt be use me because he already wants to use me i just need to sit down and listen because i know he wants to use. I think it scares me to completely let go of my life and have no control over it. I think that when i did i found the friends i was looking for and I saw the things he did for me. but complete control is hard especially when i just got complete freedom. There is one thing i want for my life to completelt give it to him and to follow his plan he has for me. I see the amazing things he does for those who live for him and give there all for him and i want the happiness that they have. Now im not trying to be envious but the way they live their life just makes me want to be tha better person and live my life for him.
The cry shouldn't be "God, use me" but "God, what else needs to be done"
this book has rasied so many questions for me and i'm only in the first chapter or so. It has made me look at how i Live. I cant wait to see what is in store for the rest of this book
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