Jesus Through Us: Following His Example in Love and ServiceSample

It’s in His Hands

Being rejected is rough. Not knowing how you’ll be received is draining. Wanting something better for someone and watching them turn it down can be soul-crushing. But as hard as those moments are, they do not mean that we’ve failed or let God down. Hopefully, Jesus’s words in Luke 10:1–11 take a great weight off your shoulders: you are not in charge of the harvest.

Only Christ has the power to save. You’re needed out in the field to spread His love and message, but people’s reactions and final decisions are not on you. Their ultimate choices are not your burden to bear. The choices that people make for or against God are not up to us. God just needs our willingness and our heart for Him, and then He is in charge of what happens from there. He will do the harvesting if His workers do the planting. And planting comes in all manner of ways.

So, live your life alongside God and keep your heart open and loving. Be an example. Listen for what He’s asking of you and boldly step forward. Then, know that it’s ultimately in His hands.

In what ways are you a worker for God right now, out in the world planting seeds?

What more do you think God might be asking you to do?

Lord, help me to plant seeds in the way I live my life—under Your guidance, strength, and love. Help me to let go of the outcome and trust that You are in control. And please, send more workers to join me. Amen.

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