Day 123 – Qualification

Proverbs 19:10 Luxury is not fitting for a fool, much less for a servant to rule over princes.

• God’s names:
• YAHWEH/JEHOVAH – Self-existent, Eternal
• Yeshuwa/Iesous – Jesus
• Soter – Savior
• Kurios – Supreme Authority, Lord
• Christos – Anointed One, Messiah
• Theos – Supreme Divinity

• God’s character:
• Employer

What makes a person worthy of the position they’ve been given? Education. When you apply for a job, your potential employer looks at your qualifications for the job. It would be foolish of the employer to employ someone unqualified for the position, especially one that needs specialized education. In the same way you don’t ask for a janitor to run a multi-billion-dollar corporation. People see misalignment in those choices immediately.

Solomon was a landowner and employer before he was the king of Israel. As the son of David, he also trained for his position as king of Israel, yet still, he looked to YAHWEH for direction in everything he did — whether landowner, employer, or king. He looked at the qualifications of the person he employed.

When YAHWEH asked him what He could do for him, Solomon asked Him for wisdom to rule. He didn’t want to go ahead of YAYWEH in his leadership of the country.

Too many people today want to go ahead of their qualifications for the job they seek. You see this misalignment in government and in the workplace. You don’t start at the top of an organization; you start at the bottom. You get your education and qualification in the trenches.

Many Christians believe they are qualified for positions in the church body because they accepted Yeshuwa as Soter and Kurios. That’s not what Scripture says about qualifications.

Consider what Paul wrote to Timothy about the qualifications of service in the church.

1 Timothy 3:1 This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work. 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; 3 not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; 4 one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence 5 (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?); 6 not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. 7 Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. 8 Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for money, 9 holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience. 10 But let these also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons, being found blameless. 11 Likewise their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. 12 Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. 13 For those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christos Iesous.

Christians must not be a novice; they need to be tested in the work. You might feel you have a calling for a specific work in the body of Christos — good. The first thing you need to do is become qualified for the work. You do that through study, education, serving under people in the position for which Yeshuwa called you.

Everyone has a place in the body of Christos.

Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as Theos has dealt to each one a measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christos, and individually members of one another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

You have a place in the body of Christos. Learn what that place is, then get qualified. You might find you already have the qualifications when Yeshuwa calls you. You only need to align your qualifications with the work Yeshuwa has for you.

Don’t go ahead of Yeshuwa, let Him lead you and you will never be misaligned in the work He gives you.

Let’s pray: Father, help me not to go ahead of You in the work You give me. Give me patience as I study to qualify for the work You called me to do for You. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

Copyright © 22 May 2026 by Valerie Routhieaux