“The potter can make anything he wants to make. He can use the same clay to make one thing for special use and another thing for daily use.” – Romans 9:21
Ever feel like God’s placed you on the chess board of life and, though you see others moving around you, you seem to be a piece He rarely moves?
What I have always liked about the rook, and the bishop for that matter, is that they can be placed on the board and in some matches, left alone, untouched, unmoved, seemingly forgotten, until the key moment the squares they guard are desperately sought by the enemy and found to be protected by their steady faithfulness to the spot they’ve been called to occupy.
These pieces are able to make an incredible difference in the outcome of the game by just being faithful.
This is their secret. In that moment, while the enemy tempts us to be more focused on movement than faithful to placement, their place on the board is protected by their range and reach and the enemy is blocked, or better, beaten.
You remain faithful. Retain your strength through knowing who you are in Christ, not in how often you are moved or utilized.
Allow the Lord to protect portions of the board, of others lives through your faithfulness.
What if all God wants from you is your placement, your faithfulness to where He moved you?
What was the last thing He asked you to do?
Did you do it?
Are you still doing it?
He may or may not move you again but that makes you no less important to Him right where you are.
