The following is an excerpt from my book Say Yes to the Prompting of the Holy Spirit. I hope it will inspire you.
Before Jesus died, He said that we would do greater things than Him. I believe when He said that He meant collectively we would accomplish more than He could do individually because there is power in numbers. However, I believe He was pointing to the fact that He had laid the groundwork for us. He wiped our slates (that were full of sins that separated us from God) clean and restored our relationship with the Father.
Now we should take a moment and focus on who we are in Christ. We can do anything through Christ, who strengthens us. The Father is in the Son, and the Son is in us. And greater is he who is in us than he who is in the world. We have been blessed by God the Father’s amazing grace. And Jesus Christ is at the heart of God’s grace. When we became saved, we were new creatures in Christ.
Imagine that. We are in the cocreator of all that is—God’s Word who spoke everything into existence.
With that said, let us speak out and act in faith. Let’s become possibility thinkers. Let’s eliminate the word can’t from our vocabulary. The word can’t is now nonexistent.
When Jesus walked the earth, He was God’s righteousness. But now He’s at the right hand of the Father acting as our high priest and intercessor. So now we believers are God’s righteousness in Christ, and we are the ones God will choose to accomplish His will according to His pleasure and purpose. Nothing is a coincidence. God has been preparing us for this very moment in time. After all, is said and done, God wants us to serve Him.
Through His written Word He has instructed us, disciplined us, chastened us, and trained us in righteousness. He has put us in His spiritual kiln (oven) to urn off some of our impurities. He has refined us in the fires of trials and temptations so we could have the opportunity to prove our faith. Each time He took us out of His kiln He painted us with more steadfastness, endurance, and patience with the hope that it would take be baked in us). He wants us to be steady and unwavering, patient (longsuffering), and be able to endure. There will be a time in the future when Christ marries the church, so He wants us perfect (without blemish).
When man and woman wed, they become one flesh (Gen. 2:24). And you don’t want one who is spotless to merge with one who is full of spots. That’s being unequally yoked. (Christ is the one who is spotless, so it is the church that has to clean itself up). The fields are ready for harvest and workers are needed. So, get ready to take the plow to serve and glorify God.
CONCLUSION
You are a work in progress and an unfinished symphony. All through your life, God has been molding you and shaping you into a vessel He can use to accomplish His will according to His purpose. After He has allowed you to go through a refining process (experiencing various trials, tests, and temptations) you will be ready for God to use (to serve Him). God has shaped you and fired you up in His spiritual kiln so you could be ready at this moment in time to serve Him.
It’s time to gather up the harvest (lead the unsaved to God so they will be convicted by the Holy Spirit and then be saved) Like it is written in Isaiah 55:11 you will be able to accomplish His will according to His purpose and not return to Him void (without accomplishing what He sent you out to do). And like Christ, you will be able to say in the end, “It is finished” (accomplished).
Have you acknowledged you are a work in progress who God has been shaping and refining? Have you recognized that you are the some of your life experiences good and bad? And hopefully, you have gained pearls of wisdom so that you will be making better choices in life from the skillful and Godly wisdom you have gained.
If you are led, feel free to share below what lessons God has shown you that have improved your daily walk.