What God is Able to Do - Through Us

<p>Good morning, Five Minute Families. Today is the final part of our three-part series looking at what God is able to do FOR us, what God is able to do IN us, and what God is able to do THROUGH us.</p><p>I remember when the boys were little, and life was all about diapers and food and toys and diapers and food and naps and, well, you get the idea. There was no room to “do” anything for the Lord because all my time was eaten up doing things for my children and my household. I wanted God to use me for more than just goldfish and diaper blow-outs. However, through my time of serving my family, God was working THROUGH me to reach them. </p><p>And, He continues to work THROUGH each and every one who calls him their Lord and Savior. As 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 illustrates, God reconciles us to himself: “Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, ‘Be reconciled to God.’” Since God reconciled us, we can now be ambassadors. Have you ever thought of what it means to be an ambassador? We are God’s OFFICIAL representative to the world. </p><p>Secondly, as His ambassadors, He will reveal Himself to others through us. As Paul states in Galatians 1:16 that God called him by grace “to reveal his Son in me, so that I could preach him among the Gentiles.” And again in Romans 11:13, Paul says, “Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry.”</p><p>Next, we see that God will bear fruit THROUGH us. Colossians 1:10 reminds us that we are filled with His wisdom and spiritual understanding so that we “may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.” 2 Peter