If you're a regular reader of this blog, you may have noticed that I'm having trouble keeping up, and about an hour ago, I told my husband I wanted to quit. It feels like too much, I said. Life feels like too much.
At my husband's urging, however, I sat down to give it another shot, and I read: "Never let the limitation of natural ability come in. If we have received the Holy Spirit, God expects the work of the Holy Spirit to be manifest in us." I very much fear that I have slandered God. I have complained that he demands too much of me, and I have accused him of leaving me in the lurch. Like the servant with the one talent, I have heard rumors of his expectations, but I have questioned (even scoffed at) his reputation as a master who supplies all that his workers need to accomplish the task. I have not see him as the ultimate Boss, who invests and invests and invests in his people.
"For no matter how many promises God has made, they are 'Yes,' in Christ. And so through him the 'Amen' is spoken by us to the glory of God. Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come," 2 Corinthians 1:20-22.
My capacity is measured by his promises.
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