The Brave Comradeship of God

The bravery of God in trusting us! It is a tremendously risky thing to do, it looks as if all the odds were against Him. The majority of us don't bother much about Him. and yet He deliberately stakes all He has  on us, He stands by and lets the world, the flesh, and the Devil do their worst, confident we will come out all right. All our Lord succeeded in doing during His life on earth was to gather together a group of fishermen-- the whole church of God and the enterprise of our Lord on earth in a fishing boat!

We say, "It seems out of all proportion that God should choose me--I am of no value"; the reason He chooses us is that we are of no value.It is folly to think that because a man has natural ability, he must make a good Christian. People with the best natural equipment may make the worst disciples because they will "boss" themselves. It is not a question of our equipment, but of our poverty, not what we bring with us, but what He puts in us; not our natural virtues, our strength of character, our knowledge, our experience; all that is of no avail in this matter; the only thing that is of avail is that we are taken up into the big compelling of God and made His comrade.

~Oswald Chambers~

For (simply) consider your own call, brethren; not many (of you were considered to be) wise according to human estimates and standards, not many influential and powerful, not of high and noble birth.

(No) for God selected ( deliberately chose) what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame.

And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are.

So that no mortal man should (have pretense for glorying and) boast in the presence of God.

But it is from Him that you have your life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, (revealed to us a knowledge of the divine plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as) our Righteousness ( thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God), and our Consecration (making us pure and holy), and our Redemption (providing our ransom from eternal penalty for sin).

So then, as it is written, Let him who boasts and proudly rejoices and glories, boast and proudly glory in the Lord.

~1 Cor.1:26-31~Amp