we have more capacity to help others than we think

​Today, Bob Goff reflects on the story of Jesus feeding 5000 people. Initially, the disciples were going to send the people away because they didn't have enough food. Jesus looked at them like they were crazy. He basically dismissed their fears and told them to just get busy and feed the people.

And they did - with a few loaves of bread and a couple of fishes some kid gave them - they fed them all. They even asked the people if they'd like boxes to take the leftovers home in.

Oh how we restrict ourselves in life when we limit our capacity to help others to what we think we personally have the capacity to do. If I've learned any faith lesson in the past five years, it's that one. Over and over again.

It was about a year ago when I met with Buddy Teaster, the CEO of Soles4Souls. I'd never met Buddy before, but I don't believe anyone's ever made a stronger first impression on me.

When Buddy left that day, I got on the Soles4Souls website. I started researching how I could travel to Honduras with them, even though a trip like that had always been way outside my comfort zone. For weeks I debated it - ran all the reasons it was impossible through my mind, convinced myself I just didn't have the capacity to do it.

Then one day, tired of the voices telling me what I couldn't do, I just went to the website and pushed that little button that basically said: SIGN ME UP 🙂 - I'm headed to Honduras.

You know, sometimes, discovering we're capable of more than we think, sometimes discovering God's more miraculous than we gave him credit for, sometimes that starts with simply pushing a button.

Over the next few months, friends donated financially and spiritually and made the trip go from a button to a reality. In Honduras, I saw and experienced things that changed my life. In a few weeks, I'll be headed to Nashville to sit down with the Soles4Souls team to talk about taking a team back there in June 2020 to host and run a 5K right there in Honduras - a race that will invite others to run alongside us virtually back here at home.

When I pushed that original button, I had no idea what I was capable of. That's because when I pushed that button, I wasn't considering what God was capable of.

As Goff says about God, sometimes you just need to "bring what you've got. He'll take care of the rest."