To Humble to Edify

Habakkuk 1:4 Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the Just shall live by faith.

This is the place I feel that the Lord is growing me right now. I was in a place where I was so full of doubt that I didn't think God had any plans to use me. I will share a quick story to show you how He changed my heart of that.

About three weeks ago I was driving home from church on a thursday night, it was raining.I was about half way home when I was going through a slight turn on the highway when my car began to hydroplane. It happen so quick that I could do nothing to get the car back. I hit a bank at about 60-mph the car spun around and then rolled once. No one else was involved in my crash. At that time I didn't think anything about the crash, I was really disconcerted with it all to be honest. Then the next day my dad told me that it was crazy how my crash was right across the street from the church I excepted Christ in. I didn't think much about it. But that next sunday a older lady at my church heard the story and was telling me how she was so exited because the crash shows God still has plans for my life. God grabbed me right there. He showed me that I was so caught up in me that I didn't even see that He was proving to me that He could have taken me home that night but He didn't.He left me hear because He isn't done with me.

Now all of this might not seem to be relevant to the title. But the next thing I had to learned was that I was so broken down that I found myself as an unusable vestal for the Lord to change or fill. (which demerits who God is and how He is the redeemer of all things)Now to some this might seem like a humble heart. It wasn't. We need to have a broken and contrite heart before the Lord. But that is the first step, the second step is to realize who dwells in us after we have found our selves worthless.

Basically my point is this. If you are breathing air, God had great plans for you. Not because of anything you did but because He loves you. And don't just dwell in the place of brokenness, remember who you are. You are created for the Glory of God!

This is the other side of what I'm saying. If you only dwell in the place of brokenness and you don't realize God has plans for you as well(Jeremiah 29:11) Then you are withholding Glory from God. That's the whole purpose we were created. 1 Peter 4:11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

If we are so caught up in our worthlessness and not caught up in His goodness. We will be blinded to His plans for us.

Three things to remember.

One: Be broken, do not look to yourself to fulfill your calling. Ps 51:17

Two: Be still and filled with Joy of who God is Ps 46:10

Three: And if you do those two things; you cannot avoid your ability to bring glory to God.

Isaiah 43:7 Everyone who is called by name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him.