Made Worthy

Who told you that you are unworthy, no good, useless to God? Who keeps reminding you that you are weak, helpless, or that you will never measure up to God’s standard? 

We all know this voice comes from the devil himself. He is the one who keeps you convinced God is angry with you. You hear his lies all day long, and they come straight from the pit of hell. 

Who tells choir members they are not worthy to sing praises in God’s house? Who tells musicians they are not worthy to play instruments of worship? Who tells elders, ushers, Sunday school teachers, volunteers, people in ministry and people in the pews they are unworthy? Who reminds them of every sin and failure and accuses them of having unclean hands and an impure heart? Who tells them they have no right to touch the holy things of God? 

The devil’s hounding voice, the accuser of the brethren, tells you, “God cannot use you until you sit down and get this thing figured out. You can’t even come into his house until you have made yourself worthy.” 

The devil has convinced many of you reading this message that you are unworthy of being used by God. Perhaps you feel unworthy even to be called a child of the Lord. When you look at your spiritual life, all you see is inconsistency. The enemy keeps lying, constantly reminding you of your failures, and harassing your spirit. 

Let me stop here and confess something to you: I have never once, in all my years of ministry, felt worthy of my high calling as a preacher. Throughout my service to the Lord, I have been barraged by accusations that I am unworthy to speak for God, unworthy to preach, to teach others and to be a leader. I am not worthy to write this message, and you are not worthy to raise your hands in praise to God. Nobody is worthy, not in our own human strength and power. However, Jesus has told us, “I have made you worthy.” 

“For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one man’s obedience many will be made righteous” (Romans 5:19, NKJV).