No trait is needed more by God’s servant than a willing heart. Learned and earned gifts and talents can take one far but unless one is willing to stop and listen for the still small voice of God’s Holy Spirit, then failure is eminent. A willing heart yields self to service when asked. A willing heart disregards the factual and embraces the spiritual. A willing heart never melts with fear or apprehension when asked to, “Go”, by the Creator.
When unforgiveness, strife, hurt, and anger are allowed to fester and take root in one’s life, scar tissue that is unyielding to hear and answer God’s call is formed. By embracing God’s powerful gifts of love and forgiveness, that scar tissue can be excised – fully removed—from a life and new tissue of hope and a willingness to serve is created.
All too often in our lives we witness a life that God had created for good and for Godly business. It is flourishing in service for the Kingdom. Lives are being served and touched by this servant of the King. Suddenly it is uprooted and damaged by difficult life scenarios. Sickness, financial disaster, relational problems, anger, addiction, bitterness or failure strike and harm. God's servant's charted course appears to be upended. Panic, fear, desperation, or anger at God begin to erode the servant’s faith in God and in his or her own assignment.
Satan has succeeded—for a moment. Christ is the eminent Victor and with restoration, that once fertile life of each willing servant can be renewed. Over and over throughout the Bible we are witness to the enemy’s sly tactics when it comes to derailing servants of God in the midst of Kingdom business. And over and over, we rejoice at the victory achieved by God's servants facing challenges posed by the enemy of this world.
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