- I need to choose my topics carefully. God will first teach me what I intend to teach others. This began even while I was in seminary taking preaching courses--God wastes no opportunities!
- I can't be, nor should I try to be, any one else no matter how amazing, spiritual, and used-by-God they may be.
- I can't make the audience see who I am or who I want to be. I can work at seeing who they are.
- When I am weak, God is strong.
- My image is not nearly as important as God's: whom am I working to glorify?
What I'm Learning from Speaking
By hgoodman - Posted on July 11th, 2008
Tagged: life lessons
• speaking
for sharing what you're learning. I need to learn some of those things too. Especially #2 - I'm constantly wishing to have the bubbly personality of x speaker or the sparkling wit of speaker z. Somehow I manage to forget that God can use anyone.
Jenny--That's a good one, availability. Honestly, there's some of that I'm learning as well, especially in putting my plans on hold.
Kirsten--Yeah, that messy weakness. Wouldn't it be easier if I could do it on my own? But really, now that I write that, I realize that it ties to the idea of whom I'm working to glorify. Huh. Didn't think about that before...
SP--Oh, don't get me started on my selfishness. I could talk all day about my selfishness. There's plenty of it!
Christianne--Thanks for the encouragement! Good to know I'm not the only one!
Thanks for this reminder, Heather. I'm learning these things right now, too.
I love that you shared what you're learning; the world is our classroom, isn't it? And God is so faithful to teach us through every experience we have.
For me, I'm learning a lot about how selfish I am. Not my favorite subject, by the way.
Really appreciated your review of Wall-E, by the way. We've been talking about going to see it - now we definitely need to do so!
these are the sorts of lessons that are hard-won, & ones -- i imagine -- that we (at least, i, because i am stubborn & am rather thick of skull) that will be learned repeatedly throughout life.
who am i working to glorify? is it really Him?
#4 is a hard one. i don't like being weak. not at all.
but i am. and that's where God shows up best!! :o)
That's the lesson I'm learning. If I get all tied up in my plans, I 'm not available for His. I just hate missing out on things--especially His things.
Maybe that should read, "What I'm learning about being a Christian" I don't speak publically, but I can relate each and every one of those points to my life.
Is publically a word? My spell check thing is saying it's not. Hmmm.
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