give what you have.

Every week, I’m not really sure I have anything to say. And then I sit down and type out a whole thing, and I think what I come up with has probably been better said by someone else.

Then I hit “publish” anyway.

The thought of someone else’s “better than I can” used to stop me from doing things. I believed that what I had wasn’t good enough, especially compared to work other people have already done, and I should just let the people who do it better be the ones to do it.

And then at some point, after listening to many honest podcast interviews, I realized the people I view as “better” often have the same thoughts I do. None of them seem to be 100% confident in what they’re doing.

The difference is they do it anyway.

That’s it. That’s the difference. They were just saying yes to things I was saying no to. So what if I just said yes to more things then? What if people need what I have and not what I think it should be?

So now I hit “publish” every week, and every week at least one person tells me it’s exactly what they needed to hear. Which is nice feedback to receive, but mostly I am blown away by how it proves that God moves through what I write – how it literally doesn’t matter what I think of what’s on the page.

When I give what I have, God moves. And that’s true whether or not anyone replies to tell me about it. Sometimes months go by before someone tells me they look forward to Thursdays and receiving my email – and that’s been true the whole time, but I just didn’t know.

I don’t know what it is for you. Maybe it’s words. Maybe it’s time. Maybe it’s money. Maybe it’s patience, grace, or forgiveness.

Maybe you think it’s not enough. Or you’re afraid it’s not worth much, or that it won’t make a difference either way. Maybe you think keeping it in your own hands will make it better. But none of that is true.

It doesn’t really matter what you have or how good you think it is. The power is not in what you have; it’s in the One who breathes on it.

But He can’t breathe on what’s not there. So whatever it is for you today, give what you have. And watch what God does with it.

The power of God is in you, even on a Thursday.