“We all get a chance to be awesome if we want to.”

A thought by Bob Goff, (2012-05-01) from his book, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World (p. 163). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

But Bob gives us the key, “Not surprisingly, the way to do it best is by being secretly incredible.”

To be honest that can be a problem in retirement. It is not one that I am proud of but the problem of doing something when all through your ministry you have been the one up front, the one that people come to, and the one who leads can be difficult. And to have that all stop, that can be an ego problem. But therein lies a greater problem. We get to the point that we think it is us and they are looking to us when in reality we are just the tool. It is God who is doing it.

But He wants to trust us for greater things but our track record doesn’t prove us worthy. I wonder though what God could do through us if we were really willing to do it in secret?

We want instant gratification and the Enemy and our ego uses that to deprive us from really being used by God. I mean what is done in secret will be rewarded in heaven. The words, “Well done they faithful servant” has an unbelievable ring to it if we would only be winging to wait.

You see what we do in public already has its reward and it isn’t lasting. As Rick Warren says, “You can be a hero one moment and a zero the next?

I am ready to do something that will not be seen. I am ready.

What about you?

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