Just Read Chapter 5 of Velvet Elvis

First of all, this is a great book, so far. I'm sure the rest will not disappoint.

Chapter 5 is about the Jewish tradition of how the ancient rabbis would select their students.

Basically, it was very grueling and challenging. Only the best of the best continued.

However, when Jesus selected His disciples, it wasn’t from the best and the brightest.

It was from the wash-outs. The people who couldn’t make the cut. The fishermen. The “less than.”

And when Jesus became exasperated with his disciples, it wasn’t because of their lack of faith in Him, most times.

It was their lack of faith in themselves.

They didn’t know how bad to the bone they were.

It wasn’t because they failed. It’s because they didn’t realize how much they could succeed.

They didn’t know that with the slightest little mustard seed they could move mountains.

Not only in Jesus, but in themselves.

Jesus makes it all possible, but we have work to do too.

We have a hill to climb.

We have a job to do.

It says that His “yoke is easy and his burden is light” .. that doesn’t mean He’s doing all the work. Its light compared to without Him, but we’ve still got a role in that metaphor.

He wants us to succeed. He wants us to know how jamming we really are.

He has faith in us.

And when we feel that we are less than, or can’t make the cut, or can’t do the job, that’s when Jesus gets exasperated with us.

Philippians 4:13 has a different nuance to me now.

“I can do all things through Christ” because He has faith in me and knows that I can. He made me so He knows what I can do.

He believes.

And that blows me away ..