2 Corinthians 3

"...And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."

Have you ever considered yourself to be a minister? Do you think that title is reserved only for the man wearing the black robe with the white collar preaching on Sunday mornings? If you have been born from Above according the Scriptures, you are a minister of the new covenant and your loving heavenly Father wants to use you. He has given you gifts and talents to use for His glory and the Holy Spirit will lead you and quide you where He desires for you to go.

Are we sufficient in and of ourselves to do big and small things for God? Nope, not even the smallest thing. Our sufficiency is from God. When we are yeilded to Him by the Spirit we don't have to strive to make His will for us come forth, He gives His Life to live through us. That is true freedom.

"...Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech— unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. "

Therefore, since we have such hope, let us, this day, use 'great boldness of speech' led by the Holy Spirit, to proclaim the glorious riches of Christ Jesus our LORD!

Amen