DO YOU SERIOUSLY THINK GOD CAN NOT USE YOU?

DO YOU SERIOUSLY THINK GOD CAN NOT USE YOU?

Moses stuttered.

Abraham was old.

Lazarus was dead.

Jeremiah cried too much.

David was a kid.

Peter was the man with the foot-shaped mouth.

Naomi was too poor.

Timothy had ulcers.

Jonah ran from God.

Simon was a member of a subversive, revolutionary sect.

Rahab was a prostitute.

Martha worried too much.

Elijah burned out.

Noah got drunk.

Paul murdered.

James and John were high-school hotheads.

Wow… some crew.

Only one guy had a stellar resume and stood out on his own credentials. He was called Iscariot.

And John the Baptist was plain weird. Eating locusts and dressed in camel skins. Who does that? He doubted Jesus too. Remember Jesus response? As Fredrick Buechner paraphrases, “You go tell John what you have seen around here. Tell him that people have sold their seeing eye dogs and taken up bird watching. Tell him that people have traded in their aluminum walkers for hiking boots. Tell him the down and out have turned into the up and coming and a lot of deadbeats are living it up for the first time in their lives.”

Such is the Kingdom of God.

Jesus always looked right past the muck of people’s stuff and sees the redemptive future. He sees what can be. He loves people as they are but loves people enough to not allow them to stay that way.

Let us not get so cynical we stop believing people and things can be transformed. With God all things are possible.

GOD CAN USE ANYONE!

Dr. Michael Sprague is the Louisiana State Chaplain with the Capitol Commission and President of Grace Adventures. Michael lives with his wonderful wife Donna and resides in Mandeville, LA. His motto is “Bet the Farm on God.” You can find more information about Michael here.

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