Working Outside Our Comfort Zone

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of the world is foolishness to God.  As the Scriptures say, “He traps the wise in the snare of their own cleverness.”

Satan's craftiness is witnessed in the way that he gets us to focus on good things that we are good at, knowing that we will find praise in our efforts.  Satan in his cleverness knows that if he can get us to stay in our comfort zone, we will never meet our full potential.  More importantly, Satan recognizes that in the process of relying on our own capabilities that we will completely by-pass God's inspiration in our work.

It is easy for us to take on projects that we are comfortable with and ones in which we feel our probability of success is very high.  There is nothing wrong with this position as long as we go to God for confirmation that the project is one that He ordains.

God inspired projects, however, are more likely to have us question our abilities to successfully complete them.  God is not concerned about our capabilities.  If He ordains something, it will be done.  God is looking for the opportunity to have His power and His glory, not our capabilities, reflected in the things that we do.  May we learn to seek the counsel and the might that He offers.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your Holy Word that teaches how Jesus was interested in doing only those things that You asked Him to do.  In Jesus' life, every project was carried out in accordance with Your will.  We pray, Father, that the Holy Spirit will teach us how to seek You first in all things.  We pray for the grace to be able to accept and act upon the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.  May all that we do be for Your glory.  We ask all these things in the name of Our Blessed Hope and Assurance, Jesus Christ.