Mother Teresa once said, “"No one thinks of the pen while reading the letter. They only want to know the mind of the person who wrote the letter. That's exactly what I am in God's hand--a little pencil."
When you woke up this morning… how did you see yourself? The star of your own one-act play called life? A doormat? A VIP? Or maybe as someone who is insignificant in the grand scheme of things. In any case, I want to assure you this morning that you matter. You were put on this earth for great things. But that greatness might not be for what you think.
You weren’t put here on this planet to be great for your own sake but for God’s.
God must get bigger and we must get smaller.
Scripture says it this way in John 3:30 “He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less.”
Let that sink in a second. Life isn’t about you. It isn’t about me either. We are tiny pencils writing God’s story that will impact the world. Some of us will write beautiful stories of love, sacrifice, dedication, and a willingness to serve others. Others will defy God and scribble out a message of selfishness and greed. Which are you?
God wants to write a new chapter for this world using you. Are you willing to let Him? Are you able to accept your role as HIS pencil and not your own? Are you ready to surrender your agenda for Christ’s? Today, take a minute and thank God that He uses broken pencils like you and I to impact His creation for good.
