Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

I love this passage. God does both, to will and to do of His good pleasure. I cannot wait. When is it going to happen?

Let me put it another way. Do you have to witness God at work in you or else it doesn’t happen? Even worse, do others have to see God at work in you before you will believe it?

Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Did Paul feel this way from the very moment he met Christ and on the road to Damascus? None of his writings indicate that. Even if Paul felt it, he didn’t pen it until this letter to the Galatians. Now mind you that Galatians is the first of four epistles to the early churches. The next three are deemed to be the prison epistles. Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians are great instruction books of the bible for the structure of the church and personal behavior of believers.

Do you think that Paul could have written such powerful messages if he had not believed that God could use him, even more powerfully while in chains? Paul wasn’t living out his life in the free exercise of his legs. He was living out his life in the free exercise of his faith. Paul didn’t get to see his faith played out in the churches, as much as he would have loved that. He trusted God to do the work.

Can you trust God to use you, even if you don’t get to see it?