I’ve been attending a small church for the last 20 years. Everyone in a small church has to wear several hats, and I had taken on some leadership roles. I don’t think I’m gifted as a leader. I’ve always seen myself as a teacher and discipler. But since there are many needs in a small church, I do whatever needs to be done.<\/p>\n
I think serving at church is my way of helping the church.<\/p>\n
But it dawned on me that it’s not that way at all. God is not saying, “That church needs a VBS director. Katy, why don’t you do it to help them out?”<\/p>\n
I think it’s more like God saying, “I think Katy would really have fun planning a program for kids. I think I’ll put her in a small church and let her be the VBS director there, so she can have some fun.”<\/p>\n
While I think of serving at church as a way to fill a need, God’s perspective is that he knew in advance where to put me so that I can have a place to do the work that he’s prepared for me to do.<\/p>\n
This year, my husband is in a leadership position at the church. It may seem like he happens to be available to fill this position but in fact, I think God has prepared this for him in advance, knowing that this experience will be a blessing\u00a0 to both himself and to the church.<\/p>\n
“For we are God\u2019s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10<\/em><\/p>\n God’s sovereignty is beyond our comprehension. I can rest in knowing that I am doing the work that God has prepared for me to do.<\/p>\n Thank you, God, for knowing what I need, and putting me in a place where I’m needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been attending a small church for the last 20 years. Everyone in a small church has to wear several hats, and I had taken on some leadership roles. I don’t think I’m gifted as a leader. I’ve always seen myself as a teacher and discipler. But since there are many needs in a small […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-life","category-thoughts-on-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}