She/He Poops Too!

I'm sure you've heard of imagining people naked in the audience in order to calm the nerves before speaking publicly.  I'm not too sure it works, but I recently came across something similar that did!  More importantly it made me crack up laughing and helped to lighten-up my heart's load.  I was sharing, with an amazing man of God, my fears of cold calling and walking into places to offer my product not knowing a single soul from Adam.  I also shared the paralyzing intimidation I feel when sharing God's word with people (which I believe is my calling.)  I assume they are far better than me.  My thoughts run along the line of, "they don't need to hear anything from me!  Surely God talks to them...who do I think I am!?" To this he says jokingly and yet so matter-of-fact-ly,  "Just remember, "He/She poops too!"  HAHAHA! It worked! If I can just think of how they poop too, I won't feel so intimidated right??? LOL


Now of course this strategy is really one that I would only cling to when I am found in a place cynicism and fear, not able to remember what God says about it all.  I don't know about you but sometimes I just don't feel like the godly daughter of the king with the sword in her hand ready to conquer the world!  I just don't.  And to be honest with you, most of the time when I walk in my calling its out of reverence and fear of the Lord that he has given me something to say and I would be wrong not to say it.  Other times I literally get sick to my stomach when I hold something in that I am supposed to share.  So I wish I could tell you that in this season of my life I am full of God confidence and that's why I operate in my gifting, but really its a compulsion to simply be right with God.


Your calling in life might be different than mine.  But the same rules apply.  When you know God has given you a gift to do something you should just do it, unapologetically!  Don't fear others will look at you saying, "Dude, who does she/he think she/he is?" Let's say my dentist...He has the gift of understanding dentistry with excellence.  I have NEVER heard him apologize to me for doing a job well done!!!  I have also never thought, "Who does he think he is for fixing my teeth so efficiently?"  Sounds funny when I put it that way but it is true!!! For you, getting up on stage and speaking publicly might be a gift and you can probably knock the ball right out of the park each time you do it!  How insane would it be if immediately afterwards you apologized to your audience for really rockin' it???  Why do I feel the need to apologize for fear that people might think I'm just being arrogant for walking in my gifting?  Now please know that I am not suggesting that we become proud and arrogant for there is a fine line and it is a slippery slope.  But with God it is completely possible to be 100% effective in your calling and yet stay humble, provided that we abide in Him.


I love how the message bible sums it up in Galatians 6:4-5: "make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that.  Don't be impressed with yourself.  Don't compare yourself to others.  Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life."  How cool is that?  God wants us to walk in confidence of who He has called us to be, and leave behind who He has not called us to be.  For me to be sad that I can't fix teeth like my dentist is ludicrous!  Through this scripture God gives you and me permission to walk in our calling, humbly, always acknowledging where the strength and power comes from, and not fearing man and their approval or rejection of our gift!


I hope I am talking to somebody.  I hope that someone struggling, like me, to be confident in who God says they are is reading this post!  I long to encourage you!  The world NEEDS YOU!  I heard someone recently say something like, "if God created only one 'me' then it stands to reason that I am the best 'me' that there is!"  Ok I probably butchered that quote but I pray you catch my drift! Dag nabbit!!! BE YOU! Stop being afraid of others judging you for being good at what you do!  Walk in it, God made you that way because the buck doesn't stop with you! You are to spread whatever He gave you into everything you say and do.  The empowerment of others lies in your hands too! One person at a time you can change the world!  I really believe it!


So, if you find yourself today in this predicament, I hope you can take my words to heart.  I pray that you begin to have an awareness of the importance of walking in His calling for you!  And shoot, if you find yourself on a cynical day, like sometimes I have, and everything I have written here fails to come to memory, then hopefully you can move beyond intimidation by in the very least remembering that she and he poops too!  ;)