I’m going on memory here, which is flawed most of the time There’s a quote I keep coming across here and there. I’m not sure who originated it, but I know Lysa TerKeurst shares it a lot — so she may be the one who came up with it.

God does not call the equipped. He equips the called.

I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately — especially when I start feeling like a failure at so many things. Then our Sunday School lesson (have I mentioned I think we’ve found a church? YAY!) this past week was on living a confident life — not a self-confident life, but a God-confident life.

⁹ who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, — 2 Timothy 1:9 (NKJV)

I felt better knowing that God did not call me to write because I have a journalism degree (I don’t) or because I got straight A’s in English class (I didn’t). I also remember a time in my journey of being a Christian when I learned why we have books in the Bible written by different people.

Each of us have our own very different (yet often similar) experiences. It’s entirely possible for each of us to look at the same situation very differently — to pick out different details to share. Even though Matthew, Mark, Luke and John wrote about the same things, they each shared different aspects of what they saw and heard. Did you know Luke was a physician? That he shared more about physical healing than the others? That’s where his interests and knowledge were. Those miracles Jesus performed stood out to Luke more because of his knowledge.

My writing is going to be filtered by my interests and knowledge as well. Here you’ll read about my experiences as a woman, a wife, a mother, a softball player, a biker mama and the list goes on. I used to look at other writers as “competition” but really when we are all called to write, God’s grace will equip us to write about the things only we can write about.

I’m so glad I don’t have to do it through self-confidence because I have confidence in God. I’m going to be pulling on more of that God-confidence this weekend. My motorcycle riding class starts this Friday! Hopefully I’ll have some good stories to share next week.