“…My power is strongest when you are weak…” 1 Corinthians 12.9
A boy. A convict. A liar. A prostitute. A soldier. A king. A fisherman. A murderer. A loner. A widow. A farmer. A doctor. An accountant. A carpenter. A business woman. A taxman. A young man. An old man. A tall man. A short man. The people God chooses to accomplish His purpose often surprise me. After all, He is God. Surely, He could do better than these. Better than … me.
Our society chooses the strongest, the brightest, the wealthiest, the most beautiful, the best of the best.
The same people are always selected, whether in the schoolyard or the workplace, the big screen or the battlefield. Interestingly, and thankfully, God doesn’t work that way. He chose someone who had never seen a drop of rain to prepare for a global flood.[1] He chose a 90 year-old woman to birth a nation.[2] He chose a convict to feed a people.[3] And when the time came to save all of mankind from eternal damnation, He chose a baby.[4] There are many more examples, both in the Old and New Testaments.
If you know and walk with the Living God, He has chosen you! He has chosen you to participate in what He is doing! What He can accomplish through us has much less to do with our abilities, position, talents or merit, but much more to do with His great power!
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