Day 12: Expendable?

Warm-Up:

Pray:

“God, Nehemiah was expendable, replaceable and in a dead-end job. Sometimes I can relate. He was a foreigner far from his homeland. I bet he was homesick. I wonder what personal plans were destroyed because of being an exile. But You positioned him and leveraged that position to make something great happen. Could this be true of me? Could you use my current situation to make something great happen? Give me a new perspective on where you have me and why you have me here.”

Round 1:

Read Ephesians 2:8-10, Esther 4:10-14 and Nehemiah 1:11

Round 2:

You have multiple roles that you fill in your life. Write down the roles you currently have in your journal. Think about family relationships (son, father, sister, grandmother), work responsibilities (nurse, teacher, student, engineer), church relationships (group leader, volunteer, band member), hobbies you have (work on cars, run, bake), etc.

Round 3:

Circle the role(s) you think God is leveraging or could leverage for something great. Underline the role(s) you think are least important. Put a star by the role you think is most important.

Burn Out:

Did you write down “Servant of God” on your list of roles? If not, go back and add it please. Think about why you did or didn’t have it on your list. Consider why we identify ourselves with earthly roles (most are temporary) and often forget the fact that God will use that role to change the world. Consider how Nehemiah’s dead-end role was supercharged into a world-changing role. Do you see that your role in the hands of God is a world-changer? Write this equation in your journal:

MY role + God = world changer

No matter what your title is, what role you find yourself in right now, or what business card you carry, trust that God has you where you are for such a time as this.