God Can Use Those Whom The World Rejects

1 Corinthians 1:26
26For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.

You may think that you are a nobody, maybe even a has-been or a loser in the eyes of the world.

Take heart because God’s Word says that if you are not mighty, not wise and not noble according to the flesh, then you are a prime target for Him to call on! And when He begins to use you, you will see His favour, power and increase change your life.

In the eyes of the ancient world, Moses was the new rising star of Egypt. The Bible tells us that in the first 40 years of his life, “Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds”. (Acts 7:22) But God could not use him then because he was too smart, strong and full of himself.

It was only 40 years later, after having been in the unglamorous desert of Midian, emptied of himself and even thinking that he was a has-been, that God sent him to confound the might of Pharaoh.

The world may pass them by, but God chooses them — the weak, the small, the forgotten, the losers and the foolish — to confound those mighty in the world.

I know this to be true. As a little boy, I grew up facing rejection and ridicule because of my Indian-Chinese racial mix. And as a teenager, I became the butt of many jokes because of my stuttering and stammering.

I remember praying to God in my teens, “I don’t know what I can do or give to You, but You got me — spirit, soul and body.” I don’t know how many times I prayed that prayer. But I knew that God heard me because He called me. Only God would dare choose me, a stutterer and stammerer, to pastor a church for Him that has since grown to more than 15,000 members today.

I know what I was and where I came from. I know I have done nothing and can do nothing apart from His anointing and grace on my life.

When you think that you are weak and small compared to what you see in the world, that is when God can use you to do great and wonderful things for Him!