4. He uses your passions, no matter how unqualified you feel, to create a lasting impact.
This past year, I found myself serving in Tanzania, a country fraught with poverty, desperation and oppression of women. Each day, we went house to house and spoke to women who were beaten and raped by their husbands, boyfriends and fathers. After already spending four months seeing the abuse of women in other countries, I about had it.
So even though I had absolutely no qualifications to make a difference, my passion birthed a small organization. My teammate and I prayed about how to bring lasting change and implemented a program. Recently, my teammate Kelly shared their progress with me.
Some of the women have started to take steps to fulfill their dreams, such as one woman who started a small business by selling chicken eggs and meat, using profits to benefit the kingdom of God. Some other women have learned how to sew, a skill they have always wanted to learn. She said, “We will not forget you for what you started here, and the women will remember you always.”
God will use your passions to create a lasting change.
5. He uses you to have impact on countless others, but the biggest person you impact is yourself.
You have just spent the last five minutes or so reading how God has used a normal girl like me to impact the world for the better. I have no special qualifications, I just show up and try to live like Jesus does.
But for all the people I have impacted, the person who has been most changed through my experiences is me. By showing up and trusting that God could use me, regardless of my flaws or lack of qualifications, I have seen that God is who he says he is.
He is faithful, loving, good, miraculous, virtuous, holy, righteous, caring, comforting and every other good thing you have ever heard of. And by living in relationship with him, I have discovered that I can be those things too.
So I don’t know who you are, what you have or haven’t done, what qualifications you do or do not have, but I do know that God can use you to change the world.
So get out there, show up and change it.
