Day 2: Recruit Another. After I read the challenge for today I began praying over who God wanted me to ask to join this challenge with me. He gave me the name of a friend from my small group: Kelly. I planned to ask her at church, but I looked for her before and after both services that I attended and never saw her. So, I knew that she lead a junior high life group at the church on Sunday nights and I was going to the church anyway so I thought I would stop by and ask her then. Well, of course, she wasn’t there tonight. Finally, I just called her up on the phone.
Kelly is someone like me who is busy. Her kids play all kinds of sports and are involved in many things in school, plus she and her husband serve on several ministries with our church. I knew that, like me, it would feel like she didn’t have time, but I felt confident that God had placed her name on my heart for me to ask. I told her all about the 30 day challenge and how she could find more information about it. After laughing a little bit about my invitation, she said “You know, it’s funny that you would ask because I had just been praying yesterday and today that God would show me what He wanted me to do next. I just didn’t think His answer would come tonight.” She got off the phone and looked over the website. Soon after, she texted me saying that she would accept the challenge! I am excited to have Kelly on board and can’t wait to see the things that God does through her discipleship!
I feel very encouraged tonight after seeing that God had been speaking to my friend at the same time He was speaking to me. It is amazing to see the way God works. The thing is: It is not about what I can do, but what GOD can do through me. This is His discipleship challenge to do with what He desires. Maybe some of the things we will do in the next 30 days aren’t things that I would just naturally do. Maybe they are things that will require me to go a tad bit out of my comfort zone, but I think that is where God shines brightest. In 1 Corinthians 1 it says:
Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things – and the things that are not – to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God – that is, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”
(1 Cor. 1: 26-31)
Nicole, that’s awesome that you didn’t give up when trying to contact Kelly. I’m afraid a lot of people would have said, “See? … it’s a ‘sign’ — I wasn’t supposed to ask her.” But by your steps, and God’s outcome, it’s clear that, to the contrary, the ‘sign’ was your determination to follow the calling. Whoooo-hoooo! Way to go.