“For it is God Who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.”
PHILIPPIANS 2:13
If a 1,000 ton block of iron had to be lifted by crane, how much could you help? Suppose you could get a grip on it and tried to heave and pull? What difference would you make? There would be no difference, and it wouldn’t help.
WHAT ABOUT LIFTING THE WHOLE WORLD? THAT IS A TASK for God, through the power of His atoning death and resurrection. Do you think you take the load off His shoulders and do a kind of Hercules exchange? Is God almighty, and then He needs a little bit of extra help from us? Jesus said He had ALL power. That’s surely enough! You may just as well leave it to the power of God. “Cast your burden on the Lord” (Psalm 55:22).
Does that mean that we should sit idle? By no means! Far from it, for you have a privileged and important part to play. What is it? What do hoist-operators do? They don’t attempt to lift heavy weights with their own hands, but neither do they hang around with their hands in their pockets. They know what to do, and without them the load will never be lifted. They hook the load to the lifting machinery! That’s what our job is. Don’t try to lift everybody’s burden all by yourself. That is what only God can do. Our simple task is to bring people to Him. The Gospel is the power of God to lift the entire world (Romans 1:16). There is power—plenty of power. Jesus said so (Matthew 28:18 KJV).
The vision of blood-washed world-continents can only be realized when we believe God and act on it. Do nothing and nothing happens. God doesn’t need to give us inspiring visions to do what we can do, but rather what we cannot. We excel at being ordinary. Jesus chose us for the honor of the extraordinary. Catch the vision! People say ‘I am not the visionary type.’ But Joseph, who was a “dreamer,” did not dream about the Promised Land. He rather appropriated for himself the Word of God to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and “gave instructions concerning his bones” that his mummy should be carried with them when Israel entered Canaan (Hebrews 11:22).
SOME PEOPLE PRAY FOR POWER, BUT DO NOTHING. WELL, nobody needs power for doing nothing. Open your spirit to the Spirit of God, and vision and power will flow like a mighty river. Jesus does not sit with sitters, nor sleep with sleepers, but He works with workers and endues them with the power of the Holy Spirit. He puts fight into timid rabbits and transforms pygmies into giants working alongside omniscience. Jesus changes our nesting habits, fills us with His Holy Spirit and makes the impossible possible.