Your imperfections do not move God

YOUR IMPERFECTIONS DO NOT MOVE GOD

Jeremiah 1: 1 - 10 

Many have received the call of God and have said 'It should have been someone else', 'can I do this?', 'will I succeed?', 'why me?'. They must have asked those questions because they looked in the mirror and they didn't look like it, they saw their imperfections. 

Those imperfections are not hid from God. He is fully aware and knows exactly what to do with them. He knows all about us. He says the very hairs on our head are numbered (Matt.10:30). He is, therefore, aware of the imperfections and has still decided to give us the opportunity to serve Him in the different capacities He has assigned to each of us. You know what? He doesn't call the qualified. Instead, He qualifies the called. He picks the imperfect, works on them and by the time He's through with them, they would have been totally transformed and the glory will be His and His alone. As one of my brothers in the faith will say, it's a privilege for a mortal man to serve an immortal God. If He has decided to choose us to serve Him, we shouldn't look at any mountain of imperfection and just be available for Him to use us. 

There are biblical examples of people with imperfections that God still used for His glory. Abraham lied and didn't take responsibility (he was in his father's house until he was seventy-five years old. If God didn't call him, he may have lived his whole life in his father's house). Sarah doubted, Jacob was dubious and a thief, Moses was a stammerer and a murderer, Jonah had anger, Jeremiah was too young, Rehab was an harlot, Paul was a murderer, Joshua was timid, David committed adultery, John the Baptist was frustrated, and we can go on and on, yet God decided to use these people for His glory. As a matter of fact, the only perfect person in the Bible was our Lord Jesus Christ. God used imperfect people mightily. So which category of imperfection does yours fall that will move God?

Please take your attention off your imperfections and look to God for grace (Heb.12:2a). Take a bold step to approach the throne of grace to find grace to help in time of need (Heb.4:16). Grace takes a man from imperfection to perfection. You are a product of grace. You are where you are because of God's grace. 

Paul, the chiefest of sinners turned the chiefest of the Apostles, said in I Cor. 15:10, "By the grace of God I am what I am." 

Therefore, faithful is He who has called you, who will also do it (1 Thess. 5:24). It's all about God. You will look back some day and won't find the imperfections there anymore. Just make yourself available. Go ahead and fulfil destiny. You will succeed.