I sighed and inwardly groaned. I reached for the TV remote and turned off the news.
I can’t even watch the news for more than a couple minutes without being so discouraged, I thought.
Almost everywhere I looked in the world was a mess. I was so grieved by the brokenness, deception, and intolerance of anything regarding God that surrounds us daily.
I know I’m supposed to spread Your love and truth, God, but I can’t! I miserably prayed. I’m just an awkward, introverted girl who barely knows anything about the world. How can I even begin to share Your truth and salvation in such a loud, intolerant society who hate You so much? Why did You put me here now?
These thoughts had been all but suffocating my day-to-day witness. I felt so small and useless when I considered the billions around the world who so needed Christ but rejected Him so passionately. What could I, a slightly socially anxious teen, possibly do to reach them?
I was in the backseat of my parents’ car, watching as we drove through neighbourhood after neighbourhood. I could just hear the radio playing above my parents’ casual conversation in the front seats when a song I had never heard before began playing. I listened more intently.
At first, I was confused about what the message of the song was. Then the singer began to sing the chorus:
I believe that you and I
Are in the right place
At the right time
God called us by name
And He doesn’t make mistakes
I know we were born to shine bright
In a dark world that’s needing some light
Don’t have to be afraid
Maybe we were made for these days.
I felt tears starting to prick the back of my eyes, and my heart swelled with peace. In that moment, I felt reassured that God had heard my fearful cries and had seen my anxious agony. I immediately knew God was speaking directly to me.
With one song on the radio He dispelled my looming doubts about my inadequacy and filled me with the peace of knowing that my strength and ability comes solely from my omnipotent Creator, not my limited self. I remembered that through Christ, I am more than a conqueror who can do all things. After weeks of feeling discouraged and inadequate, I finally felt like the child of God that I was.
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Friends, our society may be loud, deceived, wicked, and filled to overflowing with the spirit of anti-Christ. But our God is greater. Our God is more powerful. Our God is victorious.
We don’t have to be afraid of the world because the very same power that raised Jesus from the dead and the spirit of the God Who reigns forever lives inside of us.
Greater is He that in us than he that is in the world (see 1 John 4:4).
No matter what this world labels us as, no matter if they try to cancel us or slander us for speaking the truth in love, they can never overcome the power of Jesus Christ.
When God looked over human history and saw our generation, He knew what the world would be like now. But He didn’t choose Esther or Paul or Daniel to be in our generation, nor did He pick Elijah or Billy Graham.
He chose you and me to be the hands and feet of God to a broken and deceived world. He chose you and me to rise up and proclaim God’s truth and love to a lost generation. He decided that you and I were the best ones to prepare our society for Christ’s imminent return.
We indeed were put on this earth “for such a time as this” (Esther 4:14). We don’t need to be afraid. This is what God called us for, and He will always equip us with what we need.
Will you answer that call?
Let’s do it together.
-Olivia
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