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Think God can't use you? Take a look at THIS.

I'm a total expert at dwelling on my insecurities. I'm the Chief Wallower in how I'm not 'deep' enough for God,  how I'm not the perfect Friend Indeed to pretty much everyone in my circle, or why I'm still struggling with certain things after walking with God for a while - and then, I wallow some more about WHY I'm SUCH a WALLOWER.

Yo. My head is bu-sy. (Which isn't great; hence why I've been reading Joyce Meyer's Battlefield of the Mind for the last - what? - six months? Anyway.)

The fact that I can't seem to get past everything that is so wrong with me, and why I'm so wrong for this Christian life, really doesn't allow me to see how God used the most flawed people to achieve... pretty much anything He wanted to. 

I got a wakeup call yesterday morning when I saw a poster, with this written on it:

Do you seriously think God can't use you?

Noah was a drunk
Abraham was too old
Isaac was a daydreamer
Jacob was a liar
Leah was ugly (Ouch)
Joseph was abused
Moses had a stuttering problem
Gideon was afraid
Samson had long hair and was a womaniser
Rahab was a prostitute
Jeremiah and Timothy were too young
David had an affair and was a murderer
Elijah was suicidal
Isaiah preached naked
Jonah ran from God
Naomi was a widow
Job went bankrupt
PETER DENIED CHRIST (We could just stop right here.)
The Disciples fell asleep while praying
Martha worried about everything
Zaccheus was too small
Paul was too religious
Timothy had an ulcer

(And my personal favourite...)

LAZARUS WAS DEAD.

What was that you said again about you being too imperfect for God? 



Kunmi x

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