Leaving and Being His Hands and Feet - Our Whole Lives by Tami Thorsen

I recently turned the big 5-0. I have tons of grey hairs and my body has much less energy and pizazz than it used to. Overnighters at the YMCA with a bunch of teenagers or sleeping on wooden bunks for a week of camper-counseling an energetic group of Junior-High girls is not my “cup of tea” nowadays.

But just because I’m “old” and a bit “worn around the edges” doesn’t tell me “I’m no use as Jesus’ hands and feet.”

Those of us who find ourselves in this “season” of life often think this way and succumb to such “limiting beliefs” that need some tender-loving challenge.

God calls us to “finish well.” He begins, and He sustains and He finishes what He has begun in you. (Philippians 1:6) That is His perfect, guaranteed promise to every one of His redeemed children!

But we so often “peter out” and justify our “slowing down” by saying “that’s life!”

Not so. Old age does not equate to “lesser.”

Jesus told his disciples, regarding each of us who would follow after, that we would do greater things than He, as He was returning to the Father so He could send us His Spirit. (John 14:12)

Greater in this passage is referring to the “extent”, “the multiplication”, “the expanded impact” of the Gospel, to the ends of the earth! Wow!

That being said, our age is significant to God in that each “season of age” has a divine purpose for being His hands and feet via the “masterpiece” that God says each of us are our whole lives.

“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.” (Ephesians 2:10 NLT)

The coaching questions for you and I to consider are these:

What does ‘finishing well’ mean to you? What might need to change in your thinking or actions so you could finish well as Christ so desires of you, for His glory? What could “His hands and feet” look like through you to others in this season of your life? What may be holding you back from moving in this direction? What may be the next step God is inviting you to take today? Tomorrow?

By God’s Grace, I am determined to finish well for the sake of Christ, the Gospel, and for those whom He died and lives for.

In my present season of life, which offers me less energy, less physical ability, and less “full-throttle” thinking capacity, I am not allowing those to hold me back from finishing well as His hands and feet.

I am determined to be His hands and feet my whole life...

What about you?

How may God be inviting you to be His hands and feet to others in your present season of life?

…that every man, woman, and child in your sphere of influence may have multiple opportunities to hear, see and respond to the Gospel!

Have a “listen in” to the heartbeat of an “old”, seasoned man of God who was determined to finish well by being His hands and feet...

He writes, ‘Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone… Even when I am old and grey, do not forsake me, O God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your might to all who are to come’ (Psalm 71:9,18 NIV)

It has been said that it is important to pursue “a Paul,” train “a Timothy;” be mentored by “a Mary,” and prepare “a Phoebe.”

Helping you live aligned to your God-given design for greatest Gospel impact,

Tami Thorsen

Tami Thorsen ACC ICF Certified Life-Coach/Trainer Serving you with faith-based 1:1 or group life-coaching journeys &/or Life-coaching-training learning/implementation workshops www.head2heartonward.com

So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff. Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way. (Luke 4:28-30 NKJV)

Photo by Karen Ruhl

Photo by Karen Ruhl

Photo by Karen Ruhl