I Am Qualified Because God Said So.
Feeling inadequate about doing something doesn’t mean that you are not qualified to do it! All this simply means is that you must investigate those uncertainties, and carefully I say! I can remember all too well when the Lord first began to nudge me about homeschooling our children. The first thought I had was, “Am I qualified?” I didn’t know the first thing about homeschooling anyone! All I could think of was how unqualified I was to teach and discipline my kids to become teachable as students of my own. I remembered how undisciplined I was as a student.
Lord, was I going to reap this, buddy!
So for the first year, I completely talked myself out of homeschooling from looking at all of the negatives, "the flaws", which stood against me. When the nudge to homeschool came again the second year, here is where I’d begun to really ask myself “Am I qualified?” I had begun to do some research to see what it would take to homeschool and again what it took to homeschool in my state. There were tons of information on this and my research became almost addictive. I had begun to have hope for the first time!
One of the major things that stood out to me was that there are eleven states within the U.S. that require at least some form of educational experience in order to homeschool and my state was one of them. My state required a minimum of a high school diploma or G.E.D., and it was not required to have a teaching degree. Boy, was I thrilled! That killed one of my completely wrong assumptions and the rest was history!
Once I began to have enough confidence to know it was possible for me to become a homeschooling mom, the Lord began to speak even further on this. He’d began showing me that when He qualifies me to do something, that is all that matters. God understands state laws and what will keep you in compliance, but what matters most is His strength and power to do it. He explained that you could be the most qualified person having all the bells and whistles, physically, but mentally and spiritually be a complete wreck!
He said to me on that day, “I will equip you even further!”
So at the end of the day, what matters is your obedience to God. What does He say in reference to your possible lack of skills? Are they even real? If so, CAN you become qualified? So, the next time you want to judge yourself or maybe even someone else on qualification skills, please be sure to check with the Lord first because you never know what He may have in store through one’s obedience to Him!
Your uncertainties to reach someone may be God’s opportunity to use
YOU!
"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."
1 Corinthians 1:27