Leviticus chapter 9.
God used Moses over a period of time to instruct Aaron and his sons on how to do all the offerings which included preparations and the actual offering. When the time came when they actually did it I'm sure they were:
1. Nervous. Am I doing it right? Am I going to mess up? Will God be pleased? Am I really the right person for this job or ministry?
2. Humbled. God has called ME to do this!!! HE COULD HAVE CALLED ANYBODY BUT HE CALLED ME!!!
Perhaps we have felt such feelings. Let us not forget God loves us and has a call and purpose for each of us. Yes, take it serious! Train hard! Study hard! Be the best student while being trained by God, but you will feel nervous and scared or overwhelmed. But trust God! He will show grace and mercy when we mess up. We learn from mistakes and move on. Don't let Satan tear you down. Remember God doesn't call the qualified but qualifies the called.
And yes, be humbled. Stay humble. Humility keeps things in the proper perspective. It's not me who's doing great things but God working through me to do great things for himself! He wants to bring glory to his name and not glory for me. Once you remove humility you bring on pride or arrogance and once pride comes in, God gets pushed out. And it's all about “Look what I've done,” versus “Look what God is doing!”
When the glory of God appeared, the people rejoiced and we're humbled before the Lord. When God does great things, don't let it go by unappreciatively. REJOICE when you see God working. And stay humble! Always give glory and thanks to God!
I LOVE EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU!!!!
Thank you for being in the Word of God. It transforms us and changes us. I know there are those who are doing this challenge but are not writing anything. I appreciate you as well for being diligent and for persevering in order to be in God’s Word! Reading the comments each day is truly a humbling experience. I enjoy reading comments that are transparent and I enjoy reading comments that give great insight into the passage. It’s humbling to me. You are amazing, awesome, beautiful and wonderful friends!!! Thank you so very much!!! Again, I love you guys very much!!!
I really like the end of this chapter when it tells us that the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people. God was pleased with what they did. Nervousness and humbleness would have been included and it was God who received the glory as His glory appeared.
May God be pleased with how we serve Him so that we would one day hear His words from Matthew 25:21. His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’