I know it’s been awhile but school’s just been a bit much, but nonetheless I’ve had a lot on my mind and hopefully I’ll be able to share over the next few weeks with you whats been going on in my head. I’ve recently been catching up with some old friends and have found this very disturbing reality among more than one of them. Many of them have quit trying to straighten out their lives because it seems as if everyone has thrown them to the curb and tagged them “unclean.” When I think of these individuals and the immense potential bottled up inside of them, waiting to just explode it kills me to think that it is because of “Christians” opinions that they have given up. It really tore me up and made me ask when did we start limiting who God can use? We have suddenly prepared a generalization of who God should use and if they do not fit these stereotypes they must not be “minister” material. I wonder what would have happened if we had been alive during biblical times; would we have been the ones to have condemned Christ? Christ was the son of an ordinary carpenter, he didn't come from a background of prophets and outstanding citizens. What made him qualified to be a minister let alone the Son of God? What about Moses? Would we have laughed when he came and said he would bring us out of Egypt, which probably would have taken 10 minutes because of his inability to properly communicate? I can go on and on throughout the bible because it is filled cover to cover of the least qualified being the one’s to make a difference. Be very careful of who you begin to kill with your words because you never know who is called to be the next David, Jacob, or Paul.
Think about this, when you decide to renovate part of your house, you begin with a layout and blueprint of what the room will look like. The construction company then comes and they begin to work, the first step is the breakdown. This is the most important process because it is in this process they get rid of the old and make room for this new beautiful plan you have in your head. It is also the dirtiest; there is trash, dust and debris everywhere. If someone was to come visit at this point and not know you are renovating they would very easily say that this house was not much of a house. What they don’t know is the plans you have drawn out for the room and what you are preparing for it to look like. This is often the process many members of our churches and youth groups are going through and all many people know how to do is say that “they aren’t much of a Christian at all.” What we don’t see is the plan God has set up for their lives, he has a beautiful room in the process of being renovated. Sure it may not be the nicest right now but once the construction phase is over and the room has been finalized no one will deny the beauty of this room. People will now be asking to come visit, to see this masterpiece when before they had simply declared it worthless. If we as Christians would allow God to do what he needs to in the lives of these individuals we would be able to see the beauty of what God has planned out.
Check out this verse
“27But(A) God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise;(B) God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;”
It’s not always about who can look the part the best, and act the part the best. Because when it’s the weak people cannot credit them for what has happened; only God could have done something so spectacular through someone so unqualified.
OnEaMoNgMaNy
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