Thursday, October 31, 2024

What Are You Equipped To Do?

"Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever.  Amen."
Hebrews 13:20-21 (NKJV)

There were several places that I worked at in the past where I had to do different things.  Most of the time, when I was given some new thing to do, I would be trained to do that work.  But when I was trained to do some new job, which was different than what I had previously done, I could not just do things the way I had before.  If I tried to use some skill from a previous job to do my new job, it may not have worked, and it would certainly not have been something that pleased my boss.  To do my job effectively, I had to do the work I was trained for.

The Bible is very clear that God has a plan for each person, and God will help us in what He has planned for us to do.  But the key is that the plan God has for each of us is His plan, not our plan.  If we want to have success in life, and especially in the things that God has called us and equipped us to do, then we need to follow His plan.  If we do not follow God's plan, and we try to do our own plan, then we will be doing something we are not really equipped for, and as Hebrews 13:21 says, we will not be well pleasing to God.

God will help us and equip us do what He has planned for us, including helping us do what His Word says to do.  The key is as Hebrews 13:21 says, that God will help us do His will and what is well pleasing in His sight.  God will equip us to do His will, but if we are following our own will, we will be trying to do something we are not equipped for, we will not have the success we should have, and we will not be well pleasing to God.  The best thing for us to do is to find the will of God for every part of our life, get in line with God's will, and work with God in His plan.  

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