God wants to use you

Some people think that they have to be perfect for God to use them. They come up with a long list of reasons why God wouldn’t want to use them – they’re ‘’too young’’, ‘’not qualified or educated enough’’, ‘’not holy enough’’, ‘’too weak’’, ‘’too insecure’’, and the list goes on. But the truth is, God wants to use us all. He doesn’t wait until we are perfect. If that were the case, He couldn’t use us, as we aren’t perfect, and never will be. Instead, He uses us in our weaknesses.

We read in 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, where Paul is writing to a church in Corinth and telling them what the LORD said to him, ‘’ But He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.’’ 

Paul is saying here, that he gladly boasts in His weaknesses, his hardships and even his insults, because they allow God’s power to work through Him! What an amazing attitude to have, but what a challenge! We don’t usually go around shouting about the things we’re not good at – ‘’You’re good at that? Oh, well I’m rubbish at it!’’– it’s just not something we do, because the world views weakness as a bad thing. But here, in the Bible, we read that we should acknowledge our weaknesses as areas which allow God’s strength to shine through us.

Look at the people God used in the Bible:

Adam was a blame shifter

Isaiah preached naked

Abraham was ‘’too old’’

Sarah laughed at God’s promise and was impatient

Moses was a slow speaker and had a temper

David had an affair and tried to cover it up with murder

Rahab was a prostitute

Solomon was too rich

Jonah ran from God

Jacob was a cheat

Peter had a temper and denied knowing Jesus

Noah got drunk

Paul was a murderer and persecutor of Christians

Gideon was insecure

Naomi was a widow

Thomas doubted

Elijah was suicidal

Martha worried

Zacchaeus was too small

Miriam was a gossip

Job went bankrupt

Timothy was ill

Isaac was a daydreamer

Joseph was abused and sold as a slave

And Lazarus was dead.

If God can use these people, He can use you!

A quote I love says: ‘God doesn’t call the equipped, He equips the called.’’ We don’t have to be ‘ready’ for God to use us. He’ll call us and then prepares us according to His plan and purpose.

God doesn’t mind using the outcasts and the people the world says aren’t good enough. In fact, God loves and chooses to use broken people.  1 Corinthians 1:26-31 says, ‘for consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 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; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

God doesn’t choose the noble or wise, the powerful and popular, He chooses the weak, the foolish and those who are low and despised in this world. And praise God He does!

Don’t believe the lies of the devil that God doesn’t, can’t and won’t use you because He can and will use you, and He does it for His pleasure: ‘for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.’ He loves to use His people! I know I used to think that God wasn’t using me, and only used the ‘’super spiritual’’ people. But as I got older, I realised that those people were just as broken and just as weak as the rest of us, they just allowed God to use them in their weaknesses. Now I can definitely say that God has used me in many areas of my life – including this blog, and just through being me! But we do it in our weakness, and in God’s strength, because Philippians 4:13 says: ‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.’

God has a plan and a purpose for your life, and nothing or no one can stop that. So go out and let God use you. He wants to use you, so ask Him to. And soon, you will begin to see Him using you in ways you had never dreamed or imagined.

Ephesians 2:10 – “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

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Love in Christ,

Chloe xxx