God calls us to represent him in this fallen world not because we are able but because He is.
Read Exodus 4:1-31 and consider Moses and his concerns as God was calling him to return to Egypt to deliver His people. He doubted, questioned, and reasoned with God about his ability to fulfill such a request.
God was calling Moses, just as He is calling us. He is calling us to trust Him and live as God’s chosen people. Consider the words of Paul David Tripp.
God calls husbands, wives, parents, workers, neighbors, friends, university students, the young, and the old to represent him in this dark world. He calls average people to do things that are anything but average. Is there a place in your life where you are responding, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else”?
Another person was later called to provide redemption from slavery, this time the slavery to sin. His name was Jesus. His call was not just to speak but to die, so that we could know freedom as the children of God. It is in the power of his redeeming grace that we are able to say yes to the call of God, because we know Jesus’s death and resurrection guarantee just the grace we need to do what God has called us to do at just the time we need it. In him weak and fearful people are made able, and that’s very good news.
Paul David Tripp, Everyday Gospel: A Daily Devotional Connecting Scripture to All of Life (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2024), 23–24.
As we reflect on our relationship with Christ this Christmas season, let us remember that as believers, we are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:37). We can do it because He has done it! We are able because HE IS ABLE.