There are a lot of blogs in my reader. Probably several hundred. Sometimes I get through them. Sometimes I don’t. It usually depends on time and my tolerance for the echo chamber, especially for the political and tech blogs.

Oddly enough, Dana occasionally links to Pastor Mark’s blog at NCC. Sadly, Pastor Mark is usually one of the weekly reads for me. It struck me as odd that a friend in Chattanooga had to direct me to my own pastor’s blog today.

This resounded with me today:

Noah wasn’t qualified to build the ark. Nehemiah wasn’t qualified to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem. David wasn’t qualified to fight Goliath. Moses wasn’t qualified to lead the Israelites. And Peter certainly wasn’t qualified to walk on water.

It is our incompetence that keeps us humble and keeps us dependent upon God. But that awareness of our own incompetence needs to be coupled with the awareness that our competence comes from God. So the locus of our confidence isn’t in our ability. The locus of confidence is God’s ability. It’s not self-confidence. It’s God-confidence! It is the faithfulness of God that fuels our faith!

II Corinthians 3:4-6 is a new favorite verse.

I heart NCC. It’s probably the only reason I survive in DC.

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