Pioneering

Pioneers

Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a pioneer? To go where no man has gone before or to do what no one else has ever done before? As I heard these questions from the Lord, I also heard Him ask me, “Do you think I ever re-invented the wheel?” I am sure it must amuse the Lord to ask these virtually rhetorical questions - just to see how we fathom out the answers. What we say and how we say it will tell Him much about our readiness for things He is about to set before us. Not that He isn’t aware of this, but it also prepares us for the real test of when He launches us, often headlong, into new things.

Seriously, when we are regarded as starting something generally regarded as a little bit “pioneering”, do you think that no-one has ever done this thing before? Do you think that others have never tried? I don’t think there is much left on earth to truly pioneer these days. However, there is much that has been done before that the Lord is asking us, in our generation, to do again. This is what I refer to as ‘re-inventing the wheel’. Yet it is pioneering activity as far as we are concerned because we have never tried anything like it before. Others may have done so with varying degrees of success, but we have never done it.

Yes, I think that God re-invents the wheel every day and He uses pioneers to do so. The main difference is that He uses each of us to do the pioneering, the re-invention – my, how he must laugh at some of our efforts! However, that said, He always makes our poor imitation of His original work sufficiently well for us to complete what He set out for us to complete.

So don’t worry that you have not done a good enough job for God. If you tried and gave your very best, He will use your efforts for His glory and His plans will succeed. His will will be done on earth just as it is in heaven.