The Imperfect

1 Corinthians 1: 26-31

“26 Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, 29 so that no one might boast in the presence of God. 30 He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 in order that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

Every Christian is called, first, into the faith and then to serve.  Some Christians do not believe that God would call them, that they do not deserve to be called, they are not good enough to be called.  They think, “God does not want me.  I do not know enough, I am not worthy to serve, I am not skilled enough.”

Paul told the Corinthians that God uses the lowly, the weak, and the reluctant to accomplish His plans.   Moses, Gideon, and Jonah were reluctant servants who asked God to consider others instead of them, but God used them to accomplish great and wonderful things. The Disciples were not educated men of high status but, through them, the gospel was spread over the known world.

The perfect God uses the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

May the love of Christ be with you,

Rev. Eric Lanier (Retired)