When Need and Ability Collide

I spent several years as a College/Young Adult Pastor in the great state (country) of Texas.  The most popular question that was asked of me always revolved around what “God’s Will” was for their life/circumstance/dating situation/dinner/rent/major.  I spent many hours dissecting their situations and trying to give them some guidance worthy of my title but in the end I was never quite sure I was right.  And then one week while studying to teach I realized that the whole “God’s Will” thing was maybe something we just made too complicated.

For my life it is the simple revelation that God’s will is most often found when need and ability collide.

It is definitely true that we, as individuals, cannot solve every issue that we learn about or we are faced with.   But it is also true that each of us has the ability to do something – it does not have to be everything – but we can do something.  I think we get overwhelmed with the seemingly endless road of needs and assume we can’t do anything to make a difference on that road.  We do this without ever assessing our own abilities and taking a look at what WE CAN do.

I ramble to make this point.  I think you might be overhthinking the situation if you are still on the fence about sponsoring a child through Compassion. The need we are seeing in the Dominican this week is clearly apparent – especially when you read posts like the one Marlboro Man wrote today.  So the real question lies in what ability you have. I know most of you are processing this through your checkbook (and that’s fine) but the reality is just about every single person able to read this blog on a computer can rework their finances to find about a $1 a day.

This is the point where need and ability collide and you know what that’s called?

God’s will.

Here are some photos from the day:

If you want to know what “success” is for Compassion, take a look at the picture above and then read what Challies writes about this young lady.

I have always been impressed, even before I worked for Compassion, at the intense organizational skills of all the projects.  Every folder in this picture represents a different child and they are filled with details upon details about everything related to the child.

I’m not sure what’s going on here but I think my question to Marlboro Man had something to do with wanting to understand what a calf fry is.  I probably should not have asked.

~ by brianseay on November 5, 2008.