“GOD CHOSE!”

 1 Corinthians 1:27-31                    (ESV)

“[27] But “GOD CHOSE” what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; “GOD CHOSE” what is weak in the world to shame the strong; [28] “GOD CHOSE” what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, [29] so that NO HUMAN MIGHT BOAST IN THE PRESENCE OF  GOD. [30] And because of HIM you are in CHRIST JESUS, WHO became to us WISDOM from GOD, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, [31] so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the LORD.””

There is a song performed by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir entitled USE ME. One strong phrase of this song says IF YOU CAN USE ANYTHING LORD, YOU CAN USE ME!  I have listened to this song for several years with the Brain Hemorrhage in my mind PRAYING that GOD could USE ME for HIS GLORY!!!

Figuring out precisely how GOD was going to “work things out for HIS GLORY” (Romans 8:28) has been my prayer, ESPECIALLY during the past 18 years.  Attempting to do enough in the business GOD gave me never produced the results I prayed to receive.  Accepting that GOD might have allowed me to “do what I wanted” might have been THE PLAN all along?   Arriving at the point to where I had no choice but to do what “GOD CHOSE” could have been THE PLAN all along!!!

Remembering August 2007 is a humbling, painful and joyful time.  As I progressed through the Rehabilitation Hospital I was just ecstatic to be alive!  Then I was presented the opportunity to repurchase the business I had sold three years earlier and I “thought” that must have been GODS PLAN for my life??   Assuredly, I could never have been able to buy it back without HIS INTERVENTION.  

I often returned to the Rehabilitation Hospital for reunions held by the management of the hospital.  It reminds me where I would be outside of the GRACE of GOD!  “GOD CHOSE” to cause a blood vessel in my brain to “spring a leak”!  “GOD CHOSE” to place me in a drug-induced coma for 17 days!  “GOD CHOSE” to keep me unemployed for almost two years!  And “GOD CHOSE” to have the new owner to drive to our business two years before we sold it to him.  

The second verse of the song USE ME is about a shepherd boy that “GOD CHOSE” to be used for HIS GLORY!  If GOD can use the least, I am a perfect candidate to be a servant that “GOD CHOSE” for HIS GLORY!!!