God can use anyone.
Do you let inadequacies or inexperience hold you back from something you really want to do? Do you hesitate becoming a Sunday school teacher, small circle leader, or the leader of a men’s group because you feel you’re not experienced enough? The Bible tells us: Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. The verse does not say he may direct your path, or might direct your path, it says he shall direct your path as a promise. When you read your Bible you will discover God never chose affluent, eloquent, well-known people to be leaders. He used shepherd boys like David, and a baby from the bull rushes in the Nile River. Most of his disciples were fishermen, the others had varying professions like a doctor, a lawyer, and tax collectors. Each one had a unique talent that God used for his benefits. The fact that David spent years herding sheep, prepared him to shepherd a great nation with a loving hand instead of a hand of a tyrant. When God told Noah to build an ark because the world was going to be flooded, that was beyond the realm of Noah’s knowledge. It had never rained at that point in time, the world was like a big terrarium, so Noah was completely unprepared to do the task that God asked him to do. Joseph did not go from one palace into another, but went from slavery to the second only unto Pharaoh. He had no experience except for the fact that God directed his path. He made things happen that would give him the knowledge and experience he would need for the task God had in mind for him.
You can search the Bible from one cover to the other and you will find hundreds of instances where God used someone with very little experience in a very big way. What all these people had in common was that they were willing to do as God commanded. Moses did try to talk his way out of it reminding God that he didn’t have any experience and someone else would be more suited to the job. But God had plans for Moses, and it wasn’t until Moses surrendered his will, that God could use him.
There is a first time for everything in your life. The first time you cried after you were born, or ate, or walked or talked. The first time you got married, or had a child of your own, or buried a loved one. There has to be a first in order to be a second, and God wants to be your first, and use you time and time again to further his gospel. All it takes is for you to be willing to turn your inexperience over to God and let him do wonderful things with it.
As parents we need to be careful not to let, “I can’t,” loose in our house. It can become a crutch that will keep your child crippled from attaining greatness. Teach them the Bible, read to them versus that will help them realize nothing is impossible for God. But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Nothing is too difficult for God; And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. And there is that thing about teaching by example too, don’t let your inexperience hold you back from working for God.
We as authors were inexperienced when we wrote our first work. We were unsure of ourselves, filled with trepidation, and not very knowledgeable. But with time we overcame those things, learning by experience, and experiencing is doing. You cannot make progress without forward motion. So don’t let your inexperience hold you back from moving forward, especially in serving the Lord.
And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord?
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
Exodus 4:10-12
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Psalms 78:70-72
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
John 13:16