Competent?

Are you a self made man?

Ok ok… If you are a woman, are you a self made woman? Did you make yourself be the person you are today by the sweat of your own labor? Building up your life and making a name for yourself? And you’ve done this all on your own? With no help from anyone?

We all know that this is not true. No one has made their own way in life without the help of someone else. The question might be did you acknowledge the help of others or did you use them? We all have had people that have helped to get us where we are today.

Paul tells the Corinthians “Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our competence is from God,” (2 Corinthians 3:5). None of us are competent in and of ourselves.  We are only competent because of God.

So tell every one just how incompetent you are! But remember you can do all things through Jesus who gives us all strength, and the competencies to do what He needs us to!