Are you qualified?

Romans 3:9-10 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one;”

1 Corinthians 1:27 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.

Abraham lied, and ended up sharing his wife with another man, Sarah laughed at Gods promise, Moses killed a man, and had difficulties to speak. Moses sister Miriam was a slanderer; Noah got drunk and made a fool out of himself. Jonah fled from Gods calling, Gideon had no self confidence, David cheated and murdered to hide his sin. Elijah was depressed, Peter had a bad temper, Paul was a murderer, Martha was worried, Thomas doubted, Zacchaeus was a thief, and Lazarus was DEAD. The list could go on forever. The truth is that all men and women God used in the Bible had flaws and challenges. None of them would have been anyone we would have picked for the task. The 12 men Jesus chose to carry the Gospel to the world were young unlearned teenagers. The Bible tells us that God chose that was nothing in this world.

You may have heard it before, but the truth is still as powerful: God doesn’t call the qualified. He qualifies the called. Rev Gøran Andreassen

Additional scriptures for further study: Psalm 103:8-14; Ecclesiastes 7:20; 1 Corinthians 1:26-31; Romans 3:23-24; Romans 5:6-11, 23; Ephesians 2:8-9; Hebrews 13:20-21; 1 John 1:8-10.