“HE WHO WORKED!”

Galatians 2:6-10                                          (ESV)

“6 And from those WHO SEEMED TO BE influential (what they were makes no difference to me; GOD shows no partiality)-those, I say, WHO SEEMED influential added nothing to me.

7 On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised

8 (for “HE WHO WORKED” through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),

9 and when James and Cephas (Peter) and John, WHO SEEMED TO BE pillars, perceived the GRACE WAS GIVEN given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

10 Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.”

Everyone SEEMS to assume that the Apostles never had to experience the growing of their FAITH as they matured in their Spiritual lives.  However, in the relatively small amount that I have studied Scripture, it seems that GOD uses DIFFICULTIES to teach FAITH (in most cases) displaying that HE IS ABLE to overcome whatever arises to accomplish HIS Plan!

The Apostle Paul was blinded on the road to Damascus when the LORD instructed Ananias “Go, for he (Saul/Paul) is a chosen instrument of MINE to CARRY MY NAME BEFORE THE GENTILES AND KINGS AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.  For I will show him how much HE MUST SUFFER for the sake of MY name” in Acts 9:15-16.  Paul was educated to the hilts, yet he was ASSIGNED to we WHO SEEMED TO BE lower class people, who needed to have the GOOD NEWS shared with them.  

The Apostle Peter, on the other hand, (an uneducated fisherman) was mainly targeting Jews, or the circumcised.  Galatians 2:7b reveals that “....Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised”.  Both of these Apostles were “selected” (CHOSEN) in spite of their insufficiencies to perform the task assigned to them.  But through FAITH IN JESUS, they were able to accomplish GREAT THINGS for the Kingdom of GOD, because they were serving “HE WHO WORKED” without worrying about their insufficiencies, or their bank accounts.  

Operating in a “comfort zone” is what most of us end up doing with our lives.   We don’t exhibit the FAITH we need for our Spiritual Maturation, so we settle for what SEEM TO BE suited for (in our eyes) because we don’t want to experience the growing pains associated with Spiritually growing up!  Both Peter and Paul were CALLED to serve with their own personalities, in their own paths, to people in need of a SAVIOR.  “HE WHO WORKED” doesn’t require a college degree, a seminary degree, or any other man made requirements.  It is “HE WHO WORKED”, not we who HE works through!  Find out where HE wants to WORK through you.  Then allow “HE WHO WORKED” to build HIS KINGDOM by using you!!!