It is hard and (related) I wasn’t exactly made for it
There’s this odd tension between believing that I was created with special gifting to do what He calls me to do versus simply accepting that He, the Creator and Almighty God, is able to empower me (super gifted or not!) to do whatever it is He asks me to do. I didn’t grow up with aspirations to be a foster mom. If you would have talked to me eight years ago, it wouldn’t even have been on my radar. And yet, here I am, an ordinary woman, wholeheartedly living this crazy life–by the Spirit’s power and enabling.
How many people do we read about in the Bible who were nothing “special” and yet God amazingly equipped them for exactly the task He called them to do? I can think of David, Paul, Peter, Moses, and Jonah, to name a few. And isn’t this when God gets the most glory? When we live out of His strength and not our own.
So, please don’t be tempted to think: “oh, she’s just made for that” or “I could never do what you do.” Those kind of perspectives don’t exactly apply when the Spirit of God is involved in a human life. When we are weak and incapable and scared on our own, then He is faithful to show up strong and effective and courageous! When we are weak, He is strong (2 Cor. 12:10)!
