So You Think You Can't Do It?

10 year old Tim was watching his classmates lifting up a 5kg dumbbell at the gym and he was amazed. Being little in size, Tim was always an outcast in his class. His friends who were of bigger size than him were always throwing insults at him for being small. The girls wouldn’t want to mix with him for they prefer the much more macho guys and those who are – of cause – taller than Tim. So life for Tim was a sad one.
Being able to carry the dumbbell was a great thing among the students of his class, and one that manages to carry the heaviest was considered the most macho. While Tim was watching his friends taking turns lifting up the dumbbell and the girls cheering them he felt weak and useless. Suddenly out of no where a girl came over to him and whispered into his ears, “Tim, you can do it, go...” Tim spun around and saw one of the girl from his class. He was silent for a moment then the girl said once more, “Tim, go.” Without saying anything, Tim stood up and nervously walked towards the group of boys. The loud chattering, laughing and cheering suddenly died down and all eyes were on Tim. As he approached the dumbbell some boys started laughing at him.
Tim took the dumbbell with his right hand and looking towards the girl he lifted it up.

Tim, like many of us think that we aren’t good enough to do something, we can only look with amazement at our friends doing great and wonderful things. We feel that we are useless and above all, just not good enough. We may be weak in some areas of our life, some people are good at sharing the Gospel, some finds is easy to say that they are Christians. But many of us think that we are just too small to make an impact for God in His Kingdom here on earth. As a matter of fact, we’re NOT!
Read the Gospel of Acts, we see that Peter and John were creating chaos in the world by proclaiming that Jesus has risen. Peter, a coward who was even scared of a slave girl and denied knowing Jesus in front of her, and not only that but he denied Jesus three times! But God was merciful, He strengthened Peter and Peter together with John went on a great mission to spread the Gospel.

What made Peter and John stand out?
1. They were filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8 , Acts 4:8 , Acts 2:1-4) they received power when the Holy Spirit came upon them and became bold.
2. They had faith. In Acts 3:16 we see that Peter and John healed a crippled man and made him walk again.
3. They fellowshipped together and helped one another, strengthening them up in the faith (Acts 2:42-47)
4. They were stubborn for the right reasons. In Acts 4:19-20 Peter and John told the Sanhedrin that they will never stop preaching the Gospel although the Sanhedrin threatened them. That is stubbornness for God. (Acts 5:29 , Acts 5:42)
5. The people were praying for them (Acts 4:23-31)
6. They obeyed God’s command even though it was dangerous. Acts 5:20 – God sent His angels to rescue them from prison and God immediately gave them an order to go to the temple courts and preached! Wow, just came out from prison and looking for trouble again? That is love for God!

So you think you can't do it? Think twice.

Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.