Consider all the unlikely biblical characters God chose in the Old Testament
Abraham and Sarah to have children beyond their years
David a shepherd
Moses a murder
Gideon a coward
Samuel a child
Jonah the runaway
Joseph a teen
Jacob the liar
and then who Jesus chose in the New Testament
Fishermen
Lepers
Mary the Mother of Jesus
Prostitutes
The Poor
Matthew the tax collector
All unlikely, either because of age, gender, cultural norms, or positions in life.
The problem is, the more knowledge we gain, the experiences we have, raise us out of the realm of the unlikely and into the realm of the deserved.
[bctt tweet=”I want to be unlikely again. I don’t want to say “Look what I did” but “Look what God did in me and through me and in spite of me”.” username=”@paulturnertoo”]
For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh–Philippians 3:3
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