The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.
Psalm 16:6 NIV
I once met a woman who lamented over a friend’s success. “She is receiving promotion after promotion. She is doing in her ministry career what I want to do in mine. I have prayed. I have asked God to help me use my gifts and talents serving Him the same way she is serving Him, but nothing has happened. Any time I try anything, I get shut down. I feel like God has forgotten me and I don’t have any value in the body of Christ.”
As I spoke with this woman, I thought that the kingdom of God is like a farmer’s field and each of us has been given a patch to work and to tend. One person has been given a large patch, another has been allotted a smaller assignment. One person works in a noticeable part of God’s field, another in a less visible part—but all assignments are important.
What this woman failed to see is that God’s grace—or His unmerited favor—empowers us to do what we need to do. Grace will enable you to accomplish your God-given assignment. But where grace is absent, you won’t be able to move that mountain. Therefore, don’t waste your precious time envying someone else’s accomplishments or worrying about how you are being shortchanged. Know that the Lord has a plan for you to serve Him in a unique way. Rest in this truth.
Lord, thank You so much that You will empower me to do that which You have called me to. Amen.
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Today’s reading was adapted from Daily Wisdom for Women: 2017 Devotional Collection with permission from Barbour Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Reading was written by Shana Schutte.
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