When You are Ready to Follow Jesus

"If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me."
(Luke 9:23)

Have you ever come to the end of your rope, proverbially speaking? Have you come to a place where you have exhausted every option, and tried everything you can think to do. When you run out of options and you run out of a sense that you can fix it, you are probably at the place where God can use you.

God is not so interested in our abilities. He is God, after all. He created all of this universe, the billions of galaxies and stars, and all that this universe contains without our help. He doesn't need us. We are dispensible. So it is not a matter of whether I am able or not, because the truth, is, "I can't." The Scripture tells us, however, that God is able. God is able to do more than we are able to imagine or even ask. (Eph. 3:20). And He is able to do all that He does without ever straining or struggling, and He doesn't even break out in a sweat.

What God is interested in is not our abilitilies, but rather our availability. And when we are willing to die to self, and to surrender ourselves to Him, then He can and will use us. Then we are truly ready to follow Jesus. Why not lift your hands in surrender to Him through Jesus today? I heard someone say it this way, "I can't; God never said you could. He will, He always said He would." Trust Him with your life. Wait on Him, He can handle it.