Jun 09 2008
I Can’t Do This On My Own
I tend to be pretty good at the ready-fire-aim approach to ministry. Thankfully, there have been others here before me:
“Then I said,
‘Woe is me, for I am ruined!
Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.’Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs.
He touched my mouth with it and said, ‘Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is forgiven.’” (Isaiah 6:5-7, NASB)
Isaiah was a pretty sharp guy and probably had a reasonable notion of the direction God wanted Israel to go, but he recognized that if he did it under his own power, his ministry efforts would fail. Why are we so quick to charge ahead with our own plans without first bringing those plans into submission to God? I think we would be much more successful if we did – at least in God’s terms of success.
