Do Today What You Can Do

Early in the 1986 NASCAR racing season, driver Lake Speed didn’t have a ride. He had recently parted ways with his former team. Instead of flying around tracks at 200 miles-per-hour, he found himself digging a flower bed outside his home, wondering if his career was possibly over.

That’s when he heard God say, “Lake, you’re going to have to start your own team. Nobody is going to hire you.”

He chuckled and said, “Lord, you know that’s not possible.”

Lake didn’t have a race shop, he didn’t have a race car, and he didn’t have the funds to purchase either.

“You do today what you can do, and let me take care of the rest,” God said.

What Lake did have was a bulldozer, and he had some property. He immediately started pushing dirt to get a foundation ready for a shop.

A few weeks later, Lake got a letter in the mail. It was from a company that he owned stock in, which had never produced any returns, and they had decided to sell and liquidate. That letter also included a check.

It was the exact amount Lake needed to build a shop and buy the equipment he needed.

He would later go on to win a NASCAR race in his first full-time season as an owner/ driver.

It’s amazing how God never asks us to do more than we can do. But He does ask us to do what we can and be faithful with what we have.

“He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much.”

-Luke 16:10

Being faithful is not about having everything together or being able to see “how” it’s going to happen. It’s believing God’s word and taking the first step to allow Him to come along side you and work.

You may not have a race team, but you might have a bulldozer. You may not own a business yet, but you might be able to take a business class. You may not be pregnant, but you could possibly knit a baby blanket.

Do today what you can, and let God take care of the rest.