What if God put YOU in Charge?

God is so big and mysterious. I love how no matter how long you have been a child of God you will still continue to uncover aspects of His character and nature.

If you can agree with me that God is all-powerful, then you can agree that if God wanted to He could say “Mountain, go over there”, and it would go. Because by faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command (Heb. 11:3). If God commanded it we know it was His will, and we have faith in what we do not see. So for the seemingly impossible to occur two things must be present. It must be God’s will AND we must have the faith that He can do it.

Both before and during the trip, the concept of healing continues to surface in my life. With most of the spiritual gifts; healing, miracles, prophesy etc. you are now talking about God choosing us to perform the supernatural. Again, the same two components must exist. It must be God’s will and we must have faith that only He can do it. Only now when He uses us we must discern if it’s God’s will, having the faithfulness that he can do it, and now ALSO have the humility that we are nothing and God is everything.

This weekend I began to get a glimpse of Jesus’ humility. He is the most selfless person I know! Philippians chapter 2 tells us that while being in the very nature of God He made himself nothing. Think about that, God endowed His omniscient; all powerful and all loving nature to Jesus, and Jesus emptied Himself and gave it right back. He chose humanity over divinity in an act of love for His heavenly Father and He humbled himself.

‘Whatever you did to the least of these you did unto me’ starts to shine in an even deeper place.

When I try to fathom this I can’t help but wonder what would happen if God put me in charge?

What if God allowed all His goodness to pass before you? How would you handle the call if God appointed you to leadership and said “OK then, you can do all things and I will give you every bit of strength.” Imagine that, God literally enables you to do ANYTHING through His strength. How would you lead if God put you in charge?

And he DOES. It brings Him joy that we would seek His will, have faith that only He can do it, and have the humility to empty ourselves and become servants like Christ Jesus. It’s why in James we are called to ‘humble ourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up (James 4:10)’. It seems crazy that God would choose to use us, but there are examples of this throughout the Bible of God calling us to live in His faithfulness in order to carry out the supernatural.

He used Moses to part the Red Sea. He promised, and willed that He would protect Moses’ people, and He did. The staff Moses was carrying was not a magical wand; it was symbolic of the faith of Moses. After the sea devoured the Egyptians Moses and the Israelites sang songs to the Lord in the humility that it was not Moses but God that saved them (Exodus 15).

The best worldly example I can come up with is a boy being born into royalty. This soon to be King is guaranteed power over all the land and the riches that go along with being king. Instead of stepping into power and reign he humbly washes the feet of the court jester. Talk about a radical Jesus, and the purest most humble form of servant.

On Sunday we worshiped at a vineyard church in Nairobi. I have found that when I eliminate the clutter of my American lifestyle I tend to encounter the Holy Spirit in very tangible ways. I encountered the authentic, compassionate love of the Holy Spirit in this small Vineyard surrounded by a bunch of singing Africans! The sermon was on healing, and the pastor connected the story of Jesus healing a woman in Mark 5 to the humility of Jesus in Philippians 2.

I encourage you to read the story by clicking here. We see from the story that the supernatural healing of this woman was a function of the discernment, faithfulness, and humility of Jesus. All three must be present for God to use us as a means to work miracles. It first must be a miracle God wants to work, and then we must trust that only He can do it. As we tryst we must completely empty ourselves to true servants and humbly give God the glory.

I think that is why Jesus tells us we can do greater things than He did. But only when we fully surrender to God’s glory and become nothing.
So, What if God puts you in charge?
To Him be the glory!