“Do it again, God, and use me!” 

“I believe my God can do it.” I have said something similar countless times in my life. In fact, for much of my life, I have believed it to be an expression of full faith. I am beginning to learn it is far from a complete expression of what God desires from me. In fact, an expression of belief is merely the first step in realizing what God wants to do through me.

When Habakkuk confronted God about the injustices in the land, God responded with a mission for Habakkuk: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it” (Habakkuk 2:2). In other words, God was not looking for a mere expression of belief that God could provide a remedy; He was looking for someone who would step in and carry that remedy. He was looking for someone who would move from saying, “I believe my God can do it,” to saying, “Do it again, God, and use me!”

Are you grieved by what you see happening around you? Do you wonder why God has permitted it? Do you lament that He has remained silent and stayed His hand? Have you considered that perhaps His silence and absence is due to the fact that His plan is, in fact, you? You are His plan. He created you to be the mechanism by which His fame and power would reach the tangible world He created.

I am glad you have said, “I believe my God can do it.” But it is now time to turn that belief into action. It is time to say, “Do it again, God, and use me!”