God Picked You To Work Beside Him

Most people think of themselves as someone God saved and then parked. Saved, yes. Parked, no. He brought you in as a partner in what He is doing on the earth.

2 Peter 1:4 says, "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." Partakers of the divine nature. That is not poetic language about your potential, it is what happened to you when you were born again.

Ephesians 1:19-20 tells you what came with it, "And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places." The same power that got Jesus out of a grave is the power at work in you.

Jesus said it out loud in John 14:12, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." He that believeth. Not he that qualifies.

Here is where most of us get stuck. We cannot picture ourselves in that sentence, so we never step into it. The Holy Spirit is the One who opens the eyes of your heart to what is already yours, and you can ask Him to do exactly that this morning.

The partnership happens in ordinary places, starting with whatever room you walk into first today. You are not small in that room. You are in it alongside the God who made the whole thing.