Today was a great day in service. You ever find yourself in a situation and it takes you back in time to something that you read or saw. Well, today reminded me of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys. Strange right. Let me explain but first I will have to take you to a strange place, my mind. You see during praise and worship I was praying and asking God, "Lord, how can you possibly use me when I have so much wrong with me. I want so badly to be pleasing in your sight and to do your works to be a blessing to others and to preach your message. I know that there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus but it doesn't change the fact that the enemy attacks us so much by pointing out our short comings." Then I asked Him, "Please I know that you give us a free will, but I place that free will in your hands ask that you mold me to look like you."
Fast forward a few minutes later and the word that comes forth from our worship leader is coming straight from the mouth of God, an answer to prayer. It's funny we generally feel as though we are the only ones going through what we are going through but if we open our eyes and hearts we will see that each one of us are struggling with basically the same thing. The enemy of our souls does not want us victorious and he certainly doesn't want us to function in the gifts that God has given us. The way that he ensures that we are not stepping out and not doing what we are called to do is by attacking our identity. Now you are wondering what that has to do with the title of this particular post. Well, I am glad you asked. You see we are all, or we all see ourselves in the same way as the misfit toys on the show. There is something wrong with us in one area or another and we feel like because of that one blemish we couldn't possibly be useful. That is entirely not true. Let me ask you a question, have you ever seen a banana that had a bruise on it? Well would you throw away the whole banana just because there was one bruise or would you cut that piece out and eat the rest. We are the banana, we have some bruises and blemishes but that doesn't stop us from being useful.
I will submit something else to you, unlike the banana, God can take our bruises that were once useless and turn it into something useful in order to bless others with. You are not useless and this is not the island of misfit toys, or maybe it is. Maybe we need to see ourselves as broken vessels that God uses in order to help others because our imperfections are actually tools to help us be more merciful to others when they have imperfects. Just maybe, all the things that you have gone through has happened in order that you would become a blessing to others. The reason that the enemy attacks you there is to keep you from helping others by making you think you are crippled. Stop seeing yourself in that light and see yourself as an overcomer. Jesus took 12 misfits and changed the world, none of his disciples had it all together so we can't expect that we would have it all together either. If Jesus used them to change the world, what could He do with you if you would just let Him. He's waiting for you to step out. Are you ready?
Fast forward a few minutes later and the word that comes forth from our worship leader is coming straight from the mouth of God, an answer to prayer. It's funny we generally feel as though we are the only ones going through what we are going through but if we open our eyes and hearts we will see that each one of us are struggling with basically the same thing. The enemy of our souls does not want us victorious and he certainly doesn't want us to function in the gifts that God has given us. The way that he ensures that we are not stepping out and not doing what we are called to do is by attacking our identity. Now you are wondering what that has to do with the title of this particular post. Well, I am glad you asked. You see we are all, or we all see ourselves in the same way as the misfit toys on the show. There is something wrong with us in one area or another and we feel like because of that one blemish we couldn't possibly be useful. That is entirely not true. Let me ask you a question, have you ever seen a banana that had a bruise on it? Well would you throw away the whole banana just because there was one bruise or would you cut that piece out and eat the rest. We are the banana, we have some bruises and blemishes but that doesn't stop us from being useful.
I will submit something else to you, unlike the banana, God can take our bruises that were once useless and turn it into something useful in order to bless others with. You are not useless and this is not the island of misfit toys, or maybe it is. Maybe we need to see ourselves as broken vessels that God uses in order to help others because our imperfections are actually tools to help us be more merciful to others when they have imperfects. Just maybe, all the things that you have gone through has happened in order that you would become a blessing to others. The reason that the enemy attacks you there is to keep you from helping others by making you think you are crippled. Stop seeing yourself in that light and see yourself as an overcomer. Jesus took 12 misfits and changed the world, none of his disciples had it all together so we can't expect that we would have it all together either. If Jesus used them to change the world, what could He do with you if you would just let Him. He's waiting for you to step out. Are you ready?
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