This shouldn’t be hard to believe! I know that you’ve seen television shows of angels being sent down from Heaven to help folk but if you would take a look around, you’ll see that God uses regular folk. Now, the problem arises when the regular folk don’t do the things that God asks them too. You do know that when you have a feeling to help somebody that it’s actually the Holy Spirit working through you, right? Jesus says in John 14:12, “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” See, Jesus knew that He wouldn’t always be here on Earth to do the things that God had commissioned Him to do, so He had to leave work for us, regular folk, to do. This is why we have to study the bible in order to know when we are being used and spoken too, so that we understand what is being spoken to us and so we know how to use what has been spoken. God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are spirits that do not have a fleshly body and in order for them to work through us, they have to inhabit our bodies. Now, inhabit means to live in or occupy a particular place or to be found in and Romans 8:9 says, “But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all.)” This is why you have to have your light of God shining at all time, in order for others to see God and the Holy Spirit that is on the inside of you. It’s like you’re driving and your car starts to act crazy and you realize that your phone is dead and the charger isn’t working and now you need help but while you’re driving, you keep passing gas stations with their light out, which means you can’t and won’t stop there but soon you find one that has their light shining bright for you to see from the road so you stop and get the help that you need. Well, being used by God is the same. Someone, who is in the world and thinking about coming to God, would be quick to go to the person whose light is shining versus the one whose light is dim or out. See, they need to talk to someone who is willing to help them see the benefits of being a soldier in God’s army because it doesn’t make much sense to talk to someone in the Navy if you’re considering the Army.
This is why we have to be always ready to tell about God’s goodness, help those who are lost, speak for those who can’t speak for themselves, pray for those who need your prayers, uplift those who have fallen and it seems hard for them to get up, prop up those who are leaning from the weight of grief that has consumed their life, carry the umbrella for those who are fighting through their storm and push those up who keep sliding down their mountain of pain. God uses regular folks to help regular folks! Why? Because God knows that we are capable of doing it and it doesn’t take much to help. When you have a feeling to buy the person’s food behind you, do it. When you have a feeling to hold the door for the person coming in, do it. When you have the means to pay it forward for a person who hasn’t even in come yet, do it. You don’t have to wait until the holiday season to be a blessing because people need help all year long. Donate to the food bank, deliver some MIFA meals, donate a stuff animal or magazines to St. Jude, take some extra school supplies to your child’s school, leave $5 on your coworker’s desk when you know she or he is hungry with no means to eat or like the bible says in Ecclesiastes 9:10, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.”
Lakisha, the Author 