Wow!  As I have been preparing for Sunday’s message I have been overtaken by memories of receiving God’s call for my life.  I had sensed  something was brewing for approximately six months and I knew what God was trying to do.  I just simply didn’t want to hear Him.  I come from a family of ministers.  At that time I had two brothers that were already pastors.  I had seen the struggles they went through and to be honest I didn’t want to go through the pain.  I had all the excuses.  I was very shy and had such low self-esteem.  But God already knew that.  The one thing I wasn’t thinking about was this:  God already knew about my weeknesses and inadequacies.  He reminded me that He was going to do the enabling and my job was to be obedient.

The last twenty six years of my life have been filled with God reminding me of that very thing.  In good times as well as in times of crisis and pain it was God who gave me the ability to be who He has called me to be.  There is nothing like the feeling of being totally dependant on the One who did the calling.