I recently received an email that really pricked my conscience.  It added to the education I've received this past year at Charis Bible College, confirming "The Word."  I'll share that email with you at the end of this View.

We all make excuses.  It's easy to put things off if we don't feel "up to the task."  An old expression is "the road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions."  Good intentions are things that never get done--probably because we have "good excuses."

Many of our excuses may keep us from doing worldly things.  But, more often than not, excuses are what we make to God for not doing the things that he wants.

Have you ever felt the urge to say something nice to someone--but you didn't do it because...?
You may have just made an excuse to God.

Have you ever had someone on your mind --"I wonder why I thought of him?--but you didn't either call or pray for the person?  God probably put that person on your mind because there was a need in her/her life.

Do you ever say "I don't know scriptures" or "I can't explain the Bible?"  Did God ever say you had to be perfect?   Seems to me that many of the people in the Bible were less than perfect.  But God used many of them.  Even the bad people are used as bad examples.

So whenever you are feeling inadequate, especially when it comes to spiritual matters...don't dispair.   Take heart from the following example of people that God used.