Kingdom Work

Oswald Chambers, one of my favourite Christian authors said these words ‘It is a lot easier to work for God than it is to work with God’

There is a great difference between working for God and working with God. See, anybody can work for God. You can wake up one morning and decide to go and feed the hungry, clothe orphans, preach even. That is all up to you, your decision, your timing, your everything…for God. Working for God requires only your slight knowledge of Him.  

 Working with God, however, requires a great deal of faith and trust in Him. It requires a personal relationship with Him. When you are working with God, firstly, you need to be invited by Him. Secondly, you need to understand that everything is up to Him. What the work will be, when it will begin, where it will be done. None of that is up to you.

  

‘No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that God puts on His worker. Only one thing will, that is a personal relationship with Him’- Oswald Chambers

Working with God, comes with a particular mission. It is never small, and it is never easy. If anything, being invited to work with God will lead to the most difficult season of your life.  After God invites you to join Him in His plan, His project, He will then begin to break you down, mold you and remove everything in your life that is not part of this plan. Not only will He do this, He will also block every attempt on your part to run ahead of Him, any attempt to start before His time. You see, God is excellent, so He requires His workers to be excellent in both life and character. If you are to do something extra-ordinary, you must become an extra-ordinary person. 

When God invites you to work with Him, He places boundaries around you. Those boundaries both protect and frustrate you. The protection comes in the sense that there are some things God will not allow the enemy to do to you, because of this assignment. There are people who are protected, not because they are important or perfect, but because of the critical role they were chosen (Yes, God chooses) to play in God’s plan

 The frustration comes in when you realize that there are also some things that God will not allow you to do, because of this assignment. You will not be allowed to do what everyone else is doing, you might insist on trying, but the spirit within you will not allow you to enjoy it. There are some people you will not be allowed to walk with and befriend. At the same time, since you are working with God, even your choice of life partner cannot be random and according to what you think you want. God will go as far as protecting you from yourself, lest your foolishness sabotages your assignment.

As human beings, we have a tendency of doing what we feel should be done. If God calls you to be the next Bill Gates, do not attempt to improve His calling by also trying to be the next Mother Theresa. It is imperative that you stay within the boundaries of your assignment, stay within the boundaries of the territory you have been given. 

It is a lot easier to do something that it is to sit back and trust God. We tend to mistake panic for inspiration. It is easier to work for God than to believe in and walk with Him. That is why there are so few workers with God and so many workers for God.