How Do You Measure Up?

How Do You Measure up?


So often in this life we are judged on our abilities to achieve greatness, on pushing our skills to their max to be the best, dominating the competition, and crushing those who are inferior to us. Now please do not mistake that opener as an opposition to healthy competition. I am not only for it, it is essential in this life that we live!! However, I am referring to the countless people wandering this earth who feel as though they can never measure up, or who may in fact have fallen short of expectations of others in their life. These thoughts can become debilitating and hinder ones ability to discover what God may will in their lives. God's ways are not the worlds ways, and God's standards of success are not the world's standards of success. He plays by a different set of rules. His rules. And He wants to use you this day for His good and pleasing will to be done. So do you think you are worthy of such a calling? If your answer is NO WAY, then think again...


Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."  1 Corinthians 2:26-31


You see, God wants to use you, at your worst, not measuring up to what the world sees as potential, to work for Him. Why? Because it is through those who may not measure up, that He achieves what He seeks most, HIS GLORY!!! I am sure there were much more qualified people to free the Israelites from Egypt, than Moses. Or much stronger, courageous men than a child, David, to face Goliath. And I am sure that there were much more educated and qualified people in which He could have built His church, instead of fishermen and a tax collector! But He chose these individuals so that they would bring Him glory, and they would boast on His power fulfilling them. He chose them because they would seek Him for their ability to accomplish that which He asks.


So, this day, if you are wondering if you will ever amount to much in this life, or why God would ever choose you, think again! You are looked upon by the most loving eyes imaginable, and seen with such potential, chosen, qualified, and redeemed to do the will of God. So if you belong to Him today, stop trying to measure up to a fallen world, and seek God's will for your life, be on the ready for what He is going to do, and then boast about Him to all the world!!


If you do not yet belong to Him, He is waiting, He has chosen you too, qualified you, desires to know you, and to reconnect you to Him through His son who died for you...all you have to do is seek Him!