The Next Time

If you ever wonder whether God can use you?

May I suggest you consider the following:

Abraham was too old and tried to pass his wife off as his sister (twice!)

Samson was a total party animal & womanizer

Isaac was a daydreamer

Jacob was a habitual liar

Leah was plain ugly

Esther wore fish net stockings and tons of makeup

Joseph was abused by a dysfunctional family and went to prison

Moses had a stuttering problem (And was a murderer & bigamist)

Gideon was outnumbered

Noah got drunk & slept with family members

Rahab & Mary Magdalene were both prostitutes

Timothy was much too young

David hooked up with his nextdoor neighbor’s wife and then had her husband bumped off

Mathew cheated on taxes

Elijah was bi-polar and suicidal

Isaiah preached butt naked (but only for three years…!)

Naomi was a widow & penniless

Job went bust & bankrupt

Jonah ran & swam from God

John the Baptist had bad B.O. & ate bugs

Jeremiah griped to God a lot

Peter said he never knew HIM

Thomas demanded to see the nail prints

The Disciples snoozed while Jesus prayed

Zacheus was a midget

Elisha was bald and possibly practiced the comb over

Martha was a worrywart

And Mary never, ever made her bed or did the dishes!

Balaam’s Ass was smarter than He was

Paul had round shoulders and had been a pharisaical religious fruitcake before Damascus

The woman at the well had five husbands (and divorces)

Timothy had a bleeding ulcer…AND

Lazarus was deader than a doornail!

And God mightily used all these uniquely different people.

So, Press On! No More Excuses! God can use you T-O-D-A-Y.

“…Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 3: 13-14