When God Chose Me....

Isaiah, the great prayer warrior, was a man of like passions 
Just like the rest of us weak and wounded. 
David, the man after God's own heart, was a murdering adulterer 
He had no moral right to any of God's blessings. 
Peter denied the very Lord God of Heaven cursing, 
The One who loved him most. 
Abraham, the father of nations, lived a lie,
Using his wife as a pawn to save his own skin. 
Jacob was a conniver. 
Paul was impatient and harsh with converts and associates,
Who could not live up to his ascetic lifestyle. 
Adam and Eve turned a perfect marriage arrangement into a nightmare. 
Solomon, the wisest man on earth, did some of the most stupid things
That have ever been recorded in history. 
Samuel murdered King Agag in a rage of anger 
And in an overzealous show of righteousness. 
Joseph taunted his lost brothers in almost boyish glee 
Until the games almost backfired on him. 
Jonah wanted to see an entire city burn to justify his prophecies  He despised the mercy of God toward a repentant people. 
Lot gave his two virgin daughters to a mob of sex-crazed Sodomites
"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us." 
He laughs at our egotistical efforts at being good. 
He never uses the high and mighty but, instead, 
Uses the weak things of this world to confound the wise.
And then there was Charissa......
She was an alcoholic and sex addict, but God chose her
Weak thing, foolish thing, despised thing 
A base thing not very noble not very smart not very mighty. 
What insanity to think God could use such a creature! 
Yet, that is His perfect plan the greatest mystery on earth. 
God calls us in our weakness, even when He knows we'll do it wrong. 
He puts His priceless treasure in these earthen vessels of ours Because He delights in doing the impossible with nothing.

God delights in using failures men and women who think of themselves As unable to do hardly anything right....