God Chose YOU!

eDevotion

Encouragement for your daily walk with God

  

Who would have been your choices to accomplish Christ’s mission to reach the entire world with His message? High Priests? Noblemen? Members of the Sanhedrin? How about fishermen? Would they have been high on your priority list? Probably not, but they are exactly the ones that Christ chose! He chose “simple" men to build the Kingdom of God.

God has done that throughout history. To deliver His children from the clutches of Egypt, He didn’t send a general or an army like you would have expected. He sent a single man, and that was enough. The world’s greatest military power at that time was no match for a single man and the power of God. It’s amazing how God uses the ordinary to confound the powerful. I have a theory about that. God loves to empower humble people (vessels) so that no flesh can glory in His presence.

If you think you are weak, insignificant, flawed, imperfect, damaged, or inadequate, GREAT! You are the perfect vessel for God to use. He’s not looking for anything in you that the world thinks highly of—wealth, status, education, prestige, power. Absolutely not! He uses the ordinary to do the extraordinary.

God has a plan for your life, you know. One that will confound the wise of the world, and to bring to naught [nothing] the things that are. 

For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. 1 Corinthians 1:26-29