Today’s scripture: Galatians 1:18-24
God changes lives. He defeats addictions. He calms anger. He repairs
relationships. He takes rebellious, sinful hearts and makes them white as snow.
And He sometimes takes the most defiant against Him or the most ambivalent
towards Him or the weakest and makes them His spokespeople.
Moses feared he wouldn’t be able to speak to Pharaoh. Paul actively sought to
destroy those who followed Christ, thereby destroying a new religious movement.
Corrie Ten Boom was in her sixties, frail from interment in a Nazi death camp.
Yet each of these became a powerhouse in proclaiming God’s truth.
On a quite lesser scale, I was a rebellious, fist-in-the-hand-of-God teenager
and young adult. I didn’t want to have anything to do with faith. Then I
recommitted my life to the Lord, and all I wanted to do was know Him better and
serve where He wanted me.
I never expected He’d use me to speak or write. I felt unworthy to do either.
Yet, God, in His mercy and grace, chose to give me the privilege of telling His
stories.
You may think your choices have somehow made you inadequate to be used by God
in a significant way. But that’s one of the great things about our God. He’ll
use the most broken vessel to do His will.
It doesn’t matter what you’ve done or where you’ve been. If you surrender your
life to Him, willing to do whatever He asks, He will use you. You may be a
Moses or a Paul. Or you may be the only Jesus your neighbors, friends, and
coworkers see. In either case, others will be pointed to Christ through you.
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