If I Don’t Who Will?

Is that ? really ours to figure out?

Over the years, I have heard many christians, as well as the voices in my own head, decide that a certain responsibility is theirs to carry out because of this logic.. "If I don't lead that bible study, volunteer for that position, mark my calendar & force myself to go out & 'evangelize' ... then who will?"

We think.. if I don't do it.. Maybe there won't be enough spaces for people who want to come to the bible study .. maybe that child who needs a foundation in Christ may continue without it... maybe someone will go into eternity without Christ!   I have to take that on!  How can I be selfish & think so "worldly" to not?!

But are you called?  Is this task something the Holy Spirit is whispering is yours to obey?  Or is it simply a compulsion, something that needs to be done and you think you need to step up to the plate and do it?

I wonder, in this way of thinking, if we are setting ourselves up as the Savior of the World?  Trace the logic back and see if you don't find this at the root; that I must figure out how God is going to get everything done. If I can see no other answer, it must mean that I must do it?  Of course it is up to me to figure out?  Of course, I am more concerned than God himself?

Are we thinking too much of ourselves and too little of God.

Figuring out how God is going to get His work done is not our job.  Our job is simply to obey the "still small voice" speaking to us today.. apart from your mind trying to figure out how it's all going to get done.  We burn ourselves out.  Carry more than we are called to; compromising our effectiveness with doing the specific, limited work God intended for our lives because we are extending ourselves in unordained areas.

Jesus is our example.  Think of the needs that surrounded him.  Thousands of people, many other countries that he never traveled to.  And yet, at certain points, living just as we do with human limitations, he had to meet some needs and leave others unmet;  and He loved the people that He did not have the human capacity to reach in ways & depth we cannot imagine!

He gave us this principle and these words, "I only do what I see the Father doing"  "My bread is to do the will of my Father and to finish the work (that He gave Me).

The rest he had to leave alone, trusting in the Faithful Love and wisdom of the Father covering what remained.