It is interesting that as you get older, you begin thinking about when you were younger. For me, that goes back to my 4th grade birthday party. But the majority of my archaeological dig in my mind goes back to high school, when I was, let’s just say, not much. Academically, I was questionable. Physiologically, I was a lump. Athletically, I was average. Sociologically, tolerable. Not much of a resume.
As I am now quite a bit older, in my 7th decade, I look back to those days. I have realized something very profound. None of my “friends” in those days would ever consider me as amounting to much. And that is probably true from a human perspective. But over these years, God has demonstrated in my life His life in me. It is the Divine hand in a Human glove. I was simply an ordinary human glove that God, in his divine grace, inserted Himself through His drawing and my conversion. I became a new creation, who, slowly but with remarkable providential strategy, exposed me to the right people, trained me in the right places at the right time, and allowed me unique opportunities.
Certainly, my high school friends would never have dreamed that I would be doing what I have done and what I am doing right now. I'm sure they would say he just didn't have it in him. And that would be correct until God came into my life and directed it toward a life set apart to glorify Him.
The Apostle Paul reminds us that we are simply jars of clay, broken so that God may receive the glory as He uses us in service to Him. (2 Corinthians 4:7) There is no doubt I was a cracked pot with very little potential. Much like every one of us. But when God puts His divine hand into a human glove. There is tremendous potential. But of course, we need to allow Him to do so.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For consider your calling brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised, God has chosen, the things that are not, that He might nullify the things that are, that no man should boast before God. But by His doing, you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption, that, just as it is written, “LET HIM WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD.” I Corinthians 1:25-31-
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Until He comes for us, Fred | 