My pastor has been asking “What if God wants to use you to change the city?” I want to know, What if God wants to use us to change the world, to bring heaven here, to love others simply because he loved us and that’s what we were made to do?
I have thought a lot about this question and it has led me to more questions. What kind of person would God have made, if he were making a world changer? What characteristics would he have given them, and how would they appear on the outside? If he was going to use someone to influence the entire world to change its views on him, on heaven, and most of all in Love who would they be?
Would he use someone who come from a poor family? Someone who suffered through shame, ridicule, and even food insecurity? Someone who was less concerned with what they were going to get to eat, and more concerned with how many days it would be until they could. Would he use someone who got their best clothes from a thrift store and their regular clothes from the trash? Would he use someone begging for change on the street, because the hunger pangs have eaten away at their dignity, while others walk by and judge?
Or maybe he would use someone who had life handed to them on a silver platter. Someone who lived in the nicest houses, drove the nicest cars, and was always dressed in outfits that cost as much as some made in a month. A person who never had to struggle to get everything they needed. An individual who goes on vacations to their house at the beach, or at the lake. Would he use someone who seems to have influence over the masses due to Instagram followers, Facebook friends, or thousands of retweets in the twittersphere?
Would it be possible for him to use someone like me? Someone who is rough, unpolished, and to some intimidating? Could he use someone who doesn’t have all the best words and sometimes allows curse words to be sprinkled throughout a conversation. Is there anyway he would use someone who people would consider heavily tattooed, with an obsession with riding his motorcycle, and an almost unhealthy love of guns?
I could continue to classify and categorize people, placing them into groups and asking the question “What If.” The simple fact is that no matter how many groups I find, no matter how many disqualifying traits I name, and no matter how good or bad you may think these people are I will always arrive at the same answer: Yes. Yes God is able to use the poor, Yes God can use the rich, and Yes God will use someone like me to change the world.
God doesn’t call the qualified, he qualifies the called (little secret) we are all Called to go spread the Love of Jesus Christ.
I love you.
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