Young Fire: Passion or Certified to be qualified?

Why does a degree and certificate make you qualify? Or is it your passion for what you have an interest in that makes you qualified? Is it your vision for what you would like to see happen? The impact you desire to make? What makes a person qualified to step out and try something new, do we always need “a credible source”? Or do we let our passion and determination be our way for people to listen and follow us?

Am I qualified? Will anyone want to hear what I have to say? Will they catch and follow what I am trying to say and do? Will anyone care? These are the top questions that always flow through my mind when I have something I want to do; when I have a desire or vision to do something.  I use to be degree oriented; I needed to get a degree for everything that I wanted to do. 

I’m frustrated. I feel inadequate. I feel like I am not qualified to do anything. I don’t feel qualified or adequate enough to write, to share my experiences, to share my story, to encourage and help people change for the better. I always feel like I need a paper that says I am qualified in order for people to hear what i have to say. I feel like I need one in order to write, to tutor math, to help people exercise and lose weight, to educate people about healthy lifestyle, to train and teach people martial arts. Obviously you have to have something to give people. That’s the thing; I don’t know if I have what is needed. I don’t think I have what they are looking for. But I have a desire, I have a passion, I have this vision of making an impact in people lives with these tools, but I don’t feel qualified or equipped to use them in this current stage of life. Then how do I use them? How do I get training? How do I get experience without paying an arm and a leg to get education? How do I get the training I need without spending four years to be able to be “ready” and “certified”?

I don’t have the money to get the training I think I need. I don’t have the time to wait four years before I can do anything. I think that is one of the things that drove me crazy about engineering. I had to wait to do engineering. I had to wait before I could make, build and create. I had to take all these other classes, which yes are foundational, but boring and dry; it stifled all creativity and passion. It made us into robots that eventually couldn’t stand engineering anymore, we just wanted out. We wanted to find other things and fields that would stir up passion and creativity in us again. We wanted to be alive as humans again, not lifeless as robots.

I won't give up, I won't be discouraged, i will press on and pursue my hearts desires; the desires that are God's plan and will for my life. I surrender it all to Him, because He qualifies the called. He will give me all I need to live out the plans and purposes for my life. He knows what I need to get me where He wants to take me. My confidence is in Him, my trust lies in Him.