Are You Qualified?
Are you qualified? How can one question be so crippling? Am I qualified? How can one sentence make us evaluate ourselves to the point of doubt? What makes a person qualified? Who gets to decide how qualified we are? How many amazing opportunities have been turned down because a person doesn’t feel qualified?
I did not, sometimes still don’t, feel qualified to do my current job. If my personal life looked like it does now when this job became available, I NEVER would have applied. Not because I didn’t want it but because I wouldn’t have felt qualified to do it justice. That’s the funny thing I am discovering, we actually don’t get to decide if we are qualified. That’s up to God. His timing is amazing. He will put the most insane plays together and not show you any of them. He’ll just throw you in, as the quarterback, and teach you to trust.
Rolling into the past calving season I was a mess. My world had been turned upside down. I had been through many calving seasons, but this was my first time calving on this ranch, with my new job title, and I was scared. Scared to fail. But let me tell you how amazing God is. He wouldn’t let me fail. He put me where I am at this point in my life for a reason. I still haven’t figured out exactly what that reason is, but I know he called me to do this. I saw a quote the other day that hit me hard and fit perfectly with this article. It said, “God does not call the qualified. He qualifies the called.” As I read that I instantly felt called to finish this message. It isn’t up to us to limit what God has in store for us. The amount of confidence that comes from knowing God called you to do something and the skills will come with time and work is all I needed. What makes a person qualified is doing things we don’t feel qualified to do until we find ourselves measuring up.
Next time you are asking yourself if you are qualified maybe change your wording. Instead ask if you are called? If you’re anything like me, you’ll get a lump in your throat and a burning desire to run through a brick wall. I get so much courage knowing that I am not in control and that whatever God has in store for me will not pass me by. If you’re in a situation where an unexpected opportunity lands in your lap don’t turn from it because you aren’t sure if you can do it. Say yes, and trust God. Work like you’re going it alone but know that isn’t true, God is with you every step of the way.
Originally I had no intention of preaching in this article, but here we are. I guess I can’t talk about this subject without talking about God and the differences he makes up for me daily. Maybe for you it’s the universe or some other higher power that is your guide and lets you know that you are on the right path. No matter what you believe in, believe in yourself. Whether you believe in God or not, he believes in you and he will qualify the called.
