“GOD CHOSE!”

 1 Corinthians 1:26-31                    (ESV)

“[26] For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. [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 being 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.””

I’m not a very smart person!  As a matter of fact, I am quite literally Brain Damaged by the July 09, 2007 Brain Hemorrhage!  But I am BLESSED enough to admit that ALMIGHTY GOD is capable of placing thoughts in my brain to accomplish HIS PLAN!  HE has given me a VISION for Psalms 46:10 Ministries, Inc., a VISION that demands HIS ASSISTANCE and PROVIDENCE to make it happen!  

Why would ALMIGHTY “GOD CHOOSE” a dirt poor, semi-retired man to listen to a PLAN that a younger, more capable and energetic person could do for HIM?  Moses had been in the wilderness for quite a while before GOD called him to go see Pharaoh.  David was CHOSEN as king long before given the throne.  GOD hardly ever CHOOSES the cream-of-the-crop to perform portions of HIS PLAN.  Instead HE CHOOSES we who will display HIS OMNIPOTENCE to a lost and dying world! 

I am not nearly as strong as I was 40 years ago.  I have never been grandly successful in the business world.  At the age of 56 I had quadruple bypass surgery on my heart where I recovered fully within six weeks!  As previously stated, at the age of 46 I survived a “massive brain hemorrhage”, with a note from my doctor declaring “However, he has had a remarkable recovery that could only be defined as a miracle from GOD”!  If GOD ordained me to be DIVINELY CHANGED by the Brain Hemorrhage as my medical records indicate, HIS PLAN was surely going to be fulfilled regardless of my “weaknesses” and inabilities!  

Could it be that THE ALMIGHTY has orchestrated my entire life as part of HIS PLAN to accomplish what HE has prepared me for through these “trials and tribulations”?  Could it be that “GOD CHOSE” one of the WEAKEST, LOW, and DESPISED among HIS CHILDREN to relay to others what it truly means to BE STILL?    It is certainly more than “coincidence” (A sequence of events that although accidental seems to have been planned or arranged) that THE ALMIGHTY orchestrated, not only “my life”, but also the lives of every person in humanity???

The FACT that “GOD CHOSE” “the least of these” (Matthew 25:45) to serve HIM makes 1 Timothy 1:15-16 become more plausible?  Whenever you take into account the entirety of CREATION and everything that is in it, you have to come to the realization that we are NOT capable of making choices that are wise enough to sustain even our own lives, let alone the billions of people whom HE has CREATED!  The fact that “GOD CHOSE” to keep the FOREMOST of sinners (me) alive for 64 years is MIRACULOUS in itself!  HE amazes me with HIS GRACE and MERCY!!!