Everyone wants to be a success in the USA. It is part of your culture; you were drilled with being a success from your youth. You want and desire to do great things for God. There is nothing wrong with that. One of the greatest stumbling blocks to you feeling like you are doing great things for God occurs when you begin comparing yourself to someone else God is using more than you see He is using you. The fact remains though, that you want to do great things for God.
Great things for God all starts with the correct attitude. J. Hudson Taylor was a missionary that God greatly used. Listen to his advice on how to do great things for God, “When someone complimented J. Hudson Taylor on the work of the China Inland Mission that he had founded, he said, ‘It seemed to me that God had looked over the whole world to find a man who was weak enough to do His work, and when He at least found me, He said, ‘He is weak enough—he’ll do.’ All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them.’” Yes, that humble attitude that you can’t but God can is what makes all the difference in the world.
Take a look at John the Baptist. He is baptizing people and all the multitudes are coming to him. He is popular and John’s disciples are witnessing God’s hand on his ministry. Enter Jesus Christ. The crowds no longer come to hear John’s message and be baptized; they now follow Jesus. John’s disciples are beyond themselves and want John to do something about it. Envy had griped them; they once were popular and now were a has been. John’s response is why Jesus called him the greatest among men, “John answered and said, ‘A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven” (John 3:27). John reminds his disciples that God and God alone uses whomever He chooses whenever He chooses. In other words, to be great in the kingdom of heaven requires you to allow God to use you in the way that God chooses; not in the way you want to be used. To top thing off John tells his disciples later in verse 30 of that chapter, “He must increase, but I must decrease.” That is the secret to doing great things for God.
Die to self and live totally for God. Start today!
