I’ve been reading through the stories of Abraham and Jacob and Joseph and Israel in Egypt and their journey in the wilderness, and will yet get to David and Solomon and one thing that strikes me in reading all of this is the type of people God uses and chooses.
For example, Abraham was a pagan, yet God chose him to be the father of many nations. Even after entering into covenant with God and being promised that the number of his descendants would be as vast as the stars above, Abraham still acted the cowardly liar. Jacob was a sniveling, wimpy Momma’s Boy. Jacob’s sons themselves had all SORTS of issues. Rahab was a prostitute, David not only committed adultery, out of envy he had the woman’s husband killed, but wasn’t even “man” enough to kill the fellow with his own hands, he had him sent to the front lines of a war that he wasn’t even fighting in. Solomon, with his multitude of wives, had his issues as well. Then, you look at the churches that Paul writes to and the churches that the Spirit writes to in Revelations, through John’s hand and its astounding to see just how Gracious the Lord really is. It’s not that He saves sinners who engage in some sunday-school notion of sinfullness. He saves liars and whores and murderers and thieves and cowards and adulterers.
In other words, he saves men and women like you and me.