What Do You Bring to God’s Team?

My small, simple soul shrank a little at the question.  It plummeted from the cozy kind of small to the insignificant kind of small in the space of a sentence.

“What is the most important thing you bring to a team?”  

I don’t know! my heart cried.  It was an old conversation in my head, one that had worn old ruts and grooves in my thoughts.  I thought I was past the doubt, but here it was like an unwelcome scratch on a favorite record.  

I am, at heart, a quiet soul.  But for years I thought that to serve God I needed to be more than who I was.  That I needed to be dynamic, and entertaining, and able to share the gospel with total strangers in three easy steps! 

It was exhausting trying to push and prod my small, simple soul into the shape of something it was never meant to be.

Friend, do you sometimes feel just a bit out of step with the “bigger, louder, better” message we receive from the world?

Remember this: we have been created in God’s image—the bold and the quiet, the adventurers and the nurturers—all of us.   And Ephesians 2:10 tells us that “We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand the we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).  

He created good works for us!  

Not just the dynamic ones. 

The quiet ones.  The reflective ones.  The small, simple souls of the world.  Us!

Don’t ever minimize the simple acts of service you are uniquely equipped to perform.

• Soul level conversations
• Empathy
• Warm arms that rock a child
• A smile and kind word for the haggard store clerk
• A curious and studious nature that digs into God’s Word
• Creativity that quietly inspires
• A soul that speaks simple words that unknowingly lift a burdened soul

These are gifts, beautiful one!  And there are so many more.  The possibilities are as endless as the God who created us.  

And the answer to the question, by the way, is Jesus.  The best thing we can bring to any team is Jesus.  

*credit for that opening question is given to Will Blanchard from Fellowship Bible Church of Northwest Arkansas

Until next time,

Shelby