Thoughts on Chan: Part 2

Francis quoted Oswald Chambers… “Be careful not to turn your experiences into principles; Allow the Holy Spirit to be as original with others as He was with you.”  

Well, this blew me away and convicted me to the core.  See here’s the deal…  I’m going to be honest with you today, in hopes that you’ll be honest with me.  For me, I needed to change the quote to read this way, “Be careful not to turn other’s experiences into principles; Allow the Holy Spirit to be as original with ME as He was with others!”  Too often I find myself looking at other successful church’s who seem to be lighting up their towns and cities and just doing some serious stuff for God and I look at that and go, “MAN!  I want to be doing THAT!”  Then quickly I realize that I am not like that.  I am who God has made me.  See, for me… Sometimes I get frustrated because I feel like I need to be doing what Francis Chan, or Pete Wilson, or Andy Stanley, or Perry Noble is doing.  

Here’s what it boils down to.  God has not called me to be Francis Chan, Bill Hybels, Rob Bell, Pete Wilson or Perry Noble.  God has called me to be Peter Gowesky.  He has uniquely equipped me to do the task that He has laid in front of me.  God will speak to and through me uniquely.  

I need to pray and ask God, what have you asked me to do?  I don’t know about you, but it is easy for me to get distracted by what God is doing in other peoples lives so much so that I can’t see what God wants to be doing in my life.  

Does this resonate with anyone else?  Are you letting God be as amazingly creative in your life as He was in the lives of all those around you?  

Isaiah 64:8  

“You, Lord , are our Father. 
We are nothing but clay, 
but you are the potter 
who molded us.”

Thankful…

~Peter