He equips whom He calls - Hebrews 11-13

I teach leadership principles.  I am often asked to speak to leaders about the concept of "delegating" and how come we can't as leaders.   The answer that issue is varied and the root is often psychological in nature.   But, I have found one thing to be true when it comes to a leader's ability to delegate:  The more the leader "equips" his followers the more readily he/she is able to delegate to them.   Most leaders fail to delegate when they believe the person to whom they are delegating isn't able to accomplish the job.  This is were the book of Hebrews comes in.  In chapter thirteen we come to the end of the book and in verses twenty and twenty-one we come to the theme of the book:  "Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal convenient, even Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom e the glory forever and ever. Amen."    God not only calls us and saves us to do something, He gives us the tools to do that something.  He "equips" us. God provides, often through chastisement and suffering, the gifts and abilities we need to praise and glorify Him - the chief end of man and our goals for life.   Whom He calls He equips.  Don't always look at that suffering as a thing Satan is doing in your life.   God is always using it to strengthen our faith (Hebrews 12:12-17) and equip us for doing His will.