Right Where You Are

God Does Not Wait for You to Become Impressive

Beloved Friend,

There is a subtle lie many of us have believed at some point. I know I did. The lie says that God meets people only after they arrive. After they become educated enough. After they grow deep enough. After they learn the language of visions, realms, portals, and mysteries. The lie says that until then, God is distant. Patient, maybe. Watching, perhaps. Waiting for you to level up.

Scripture tells a different story.

God has always met people where they were, not where they pretended to be.

Moses met God while tending sheep, not while leading Israel. Gideon met God while hiding in fear, not while acting brave. David met God in obscurity, not on the throne. Peter met God as a fisherman who did not even fully understand who he was following yet. The Samaritan woman met God while drawing water, not while living a sorted life. God met Patience while she was writing the musings of Her Father’s heart. God met (insert your name and wherever you’re at, my friend).

God never waited for them to perform their way into encounter.

This matters because many believers quietly disqualify themselves. You may think you are too simple. Too uneducated. Too timid. Too ordinary. Too unsure. Too new. Too unfamiliar with spiritual language. Too awkward in prayer. Too limited in expression.

None of these have ever stopped God.

He meets you where you are. Then He walks with you forward.

This was one lie I carried for a long time. I thought God was accessible, just not yet to me. I thought encounters were reserved for people who knew how to articulate deep prayers or access lofty spiritual spaces. I thought if I could not explain it, I could not experience it. God gently dismantled that idea.

God is not intimidated by simplicity.

Some of His greatest servants were marked by how ordinary they appeared. Many of God’s generals, both those who have gone ahead and those still alive, did not begin with impressive words or mystical expressions. Some simply showed up with faithfulness. Some only knew how to pray. Some only knew how to obey the next instruction. God took what they had and breathed on it.

Kathryn Kuhlman once said, in essence, that she had nothing to offer God except her availability. She acknowledged her own limitations and made room for the Holy Spirit to take what seemed like nothing and use it mightily. Her life reminds us that God is not searching for impressive resumes but yielded hearts.

This truth is echoed in the lives of other servants of God. Smith Wigglesworth was a plumber with little formal education who struggled to read, yet his unwavering faith and simple obedience made him a vessel for extraordinary works of God. Billy Graham did not preach complex theology. His message was plain. His obedience was consistent. God trusted that simplicity with nations. God met each of them where they were, then grew them beyond where they began. That posture was not weakness. It was power surrendered.

God does not meet us because we are impressive. He meets us because He is present.

This does not mean He leaves us where we are. God never meets a person to abandon them in that place. He meets us in our limitation so He can lead us into transformation. Encounter is not the reward for growth. It is often the beginning of growth.

You may not access visions. You may not have language for realms. You may not understand spiritual hierarchies. You may not be able to access portals and realms. God can still meet you. He has always done so. He still does.

If you have ever felt like you were behind, unqualified, or too ordinary for God, let this truth rest with you today. God does not require you to climb to Him. He steps into your space.

Show up as you are. Stay yielded. Stay honest. Stay available.

He knows how to do the rest.

So if you are waiting to be more articulate, more educated, more spiritual, more seen, more impressive before you come boldly to God, you can rest. That waiting is unnecessary. God has always met people in fields, prisons, fishing boats, sickbeds, quiet rooms, and ordinary moments. He meets you as you are, not as who you are trying to become.

This was a lie I once believed too. That I had to arrive first before I could truly encounter Him. Time and grace have taught me otherwise. God does not meet perfection. He meets availability. He does not ask for mastery. He asks for surrender.

He will meet you where you are, then lovingly refuse to leave you there. That is the kindness of God. That is the pattern of Scripture. That is still His way.

With thoughts of kindness,

ABBA’s Shofar.