God's Love

When you feel isolated and lonely, consider that God may be trying to teach you that we can trust He will never truly leave us alone.

“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Deuteronomy 31:6)

When you feel heartbroken, consider that God may be trying to teach you what it means to fully rely on His strength and perfect will.

“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)

When you feel like your future is going nowhere, consider that God may be growing you for the next season of your life in which you would never experience without the growth process first.

“Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” (John 15:2)

When you feel hopeless, consider that God may be trying to show you He gives us eternal hope, which outweighs the temporary hope this world offers us.

“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)

The point is, God can teach us in every situation of our lives… we need only to be open to learning what that is.

With the exception of His Son, of course, God has never used a perfect person to carry out His good will for this world. I think a lot of us tend to imagine God only picking out the most morally steadfast people; the people He decides have been able to reach His standard of ideal righteousness. But when you flip through the pages of the bible, you actually find quite the opposite. 

Our God’s got a thing for the underdogs. He takes the weak, the outcast, the lost, the confused, the poor, the sick, the lonely, and the depressed, and He uses them to bring great glory to His name. He calls the liar, the cheater, the adulterer, the thief, the prostitute, and the murderer not to condemnation or to ridicule, but to sit across from him at the table and eat. He washes them white with His own blood, and remembers their sins no more.

God isn’t looking for spotless records or thoroughly upstanding character. He’s just looking for willing hearts.

God has never used a perfect person.

Just ordinary people like you and I; not fearless, not unbroken, and certainly not without fault,