Yea I Know You Can't Be Used By God

The Lord knows very well that you cannot change your own heart and cannot replace your old nature. However, He also knows that He can do both! He can cause the Ethiopian to change his skin and the leopard his spots (Jeremiah 13:23). He CAN create you a second time! He can cause you to be born again. This is a miracle of grace that the Holy Spirit performs.

It would be incredible if a person could stand at the foot of Niagara Falls and speak a word that would make the Niagara River begin to run upstream and leap up that great precipice over which it now rolls down with outlandish force. Nothing but the power of God could achieve something like that. Yet that would be a perfect parallel to what takes place when the course of your whole nature is altogether reversed! You are stinkin' miracle - there is no other way to say it.

It's not about your ability to serve Him, it all began and ends with His grace and your availability to be used by Him!

The next time you feel like GOD can't use YOU, just remember...

· Noah was a drunk

· Abraham was too old

· Isaac was a daydreamer

· Jacob was a liar

· Leah was ugly

· Joseph was abused

· Moses had a stuttering problem

· Gideon was afraid

· Sampson had long hair and was a womanizer

· Rahab was a prostitute

· Jeremiah and Timothy were too young

· David had an affair and was a murderer

· Elijah was suicidal

· Isaiah preached naked

· Jonah ran from God

· Naomi was a widow

· Job went bankrupt

· John the Baptist ate bugs (ha!)

· Peter denied Christ

· The Disciples fell asleep while praying

· Martha worried about everything

· The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once

· Zaccheus was too small

· Paul was too religious

· Timothy had an ulcer

· Lazarus was dead!

There are no more excuses now!! God can use you to your fullest potential. Besides, you aren't even the message, you are just the messenger.

Much love,

pcraig