I am so underqualified

I REALLY need to stop saying these words...."I am so underqualified". I not only limit myself when I say those words but even more I limit God's ability to work through me. I said those words when I was offered the current youth minister job that I am in and then I said it again today when Mike, the church's Chief Executive Officer (a fancy word for saying the business guy) came up to me and asked if I would be interested in teaching a religous education classe to 5th and 6th graders at the church's school next year. I was pretty stunned and the first thing that came to my mouth was "wow, I am so underqualified, but I would be interested in looking into it".

As I have been reflecting on those words that have come out of my mouth a number of times over the past few months, I get really disappointed in myself. On one hand, it is good to know that I am not getting cocky but then on another it shows a lack of confidence in myself and in God. As I am typing this I am thinking about all the people that God has used to do amazing things, from the Virgin Mary to Martin Luther King Jr and my friend Susan who taught in an inner-city school these past two years to Brad another friend of mine who is in medical school. He uses normal, everyday people to do extraordinary things. So as I am thinking about it, I really am underqualified to do that or in that fact any job or ministry, but through God I am given the tools to do His work. As one of my friends like to say "My confidence is in Christ". I giggle when she says sometimes, but it is so true.

So if everything works out I could be a teacher next year, and even scarier teaching religion. How scary and exciting and what a great opportunity to see the tools that God will use through me.