Calling: You Don’t Need a Résumé, You Need a Sender
Read: Matthew 10:1–4
Look at who Jesus hands His authority to in Matthew 10: fishermen, a despised tax collector, a political zealot from the opposite end of the spectrum, and even Judas — the man who would betray Him. This wasn’t a lineup of the impressive or the polished. It was ordinary, unlikely, sometimes contradictory people brought under one mission.
There’s a sequence worth noticing here. Verse 1 tells us Jesus gave His disciples authority before He sent them out in verse 5. Authority came first. Equipping came before sending. Which means the confidence to go was never meant to come from their own qualifications but it came from who sent them.
If you’ve ever looked at your own life and thought, “I’m too ordinary for this; I’m not trained enough, not polished enough, too much history behind me,” then know that you’re in surprisingly good company. The first apostles were fishermen and a tax man. Jesus doesn’t wait for the qualified. He qualifies the called.
This is freeing, because it means your usefulness to Jesus was never contingent on having your life fully sorted out first. He calls messy people, ordinary jobs, unfinished stories, and He supplies what the calling requires. Your adequacy was never meant to come from your résumé. It comes from Him.
So don’t disqualify yourself from the mission field that’s already yours — your workplace, your street, your family — just because you don’t feel remarkable. Jesus has never needed remarkable people. He’s only ever needed willing ones.