Quote:

“All who hear are called. All who are called are able.” -- Chuck Black (Kingdom’s Quest) 

Context:

We cannot deny the fact that God calls people to His mighty purposes. Oftentimes those things he calls us to seem impossible. We look at it and say, “I can’t do that. I’m not capable of that. I’m not qualified.” I’m imagining God just looking at us and saying, “Oh sorry, I didn’t realize…
Putting it in that light is convicting. Saying we can’t do what God has called us to, or we’re not qualified for that, is saying that He is wrong and we don't trust Him. But God is perfect. God is never wrong. It would be so prideful for us to think otherwise. 
I believe that He doesn’t call us because we are qualified, but that it is in the calling that He qualifies us. Now I’m not saying that God is going to call you to some crazy thing like going to the Amazon Jungle and laying your life down for a foreign tribe of indians. But that what he calls us to can be as simple as talking to that new person. Or reaching out to a friend. Serving a sibling, a child or a parent. Doing school or working to the best of your ability in service to God. It doesn’t have to be some elaborate achievement. Even those simple, mundane things can seem so hard at times. 
If we remember this quote, if we hear that calling, we can remember we are able. We can do it. Because of God. 
Sometimes He might call us to do the impossible. In those moments it is very hard not to doubt our capability. To say that we can’t do it. But God knows our limitations. He knows we can’t on our own. I believe that it is in that moment that we say we can’t, He steps in and shows us HE CAN. Without Him we can’t but with Him all things are possible. When we look to Him for our strength, that mountain that you are staring out doesn’t seem so tall and we seem a bit stronger. 
No matter how high the mountain, how deep the waters, how crazy the calling, we don’t have to fear. When God calls us and we rely on His strength we are able. 
This series, Kingdom Series written by Chuck Black, is a biblical allegory set in a fictional medieval world. Kingdom’s Quest, being the fifth book in the series, is based on Paul's life. Sir Gavin, the character for Paul, was persecuting the believers in the Prince. Then the Prince met him and flipped around his life and called him to make disciples of every nation. Sir Gavin obeys this calling on his life and faces fierce battles, severe beatings, imprisonments, persecution and more. Yet he never wavers from his faith. 
It's interesting looking at Paul’s life, and Sir Gavin’s, and the calling on their lives, where they came from, how Christ met them, and where He took them. They both have reason enough to doubt their ability. I mean they were the ones persecuting the Christians. Killing them. Torturing them. And then God steps in and flips their lives around and calls them to proclaim His name among the nations. If that were me I wouldn’t think I was worthy of such. I wouldn’t believe I was qualified to do such a mighty work. 
Yet God didn’t care about their imperfections. He called them anyway, in-spite of them. Because He wanted to show them HIS strength. That through Him they can do all things. Even the impossible. 

“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever.” -- Ephesians 3: 20-21

- Adalyn E. Skains