Friday, December 05, 2008

No Excuse is Good Enough

The next time you think you have an excuse why God can't use you, remember the following people:
Noah was drunk,
Abraham was too old,
Isaac was a daydreamer,
Jacob was a liar,
Leah was ugly,
Joseph was abused,
Moses was a murderer (like David and Paul),
Deborah was a female judge,
Gideon was afraid,
Samson had long hair,
Rahab was a prostitute,
Jeremiah and Timothy were too young,
David pretended to be mad, had an affair
and ran away from his own son,
Elijah was suicidal,
Isaiah preached naked,
Jonah ran away from God,
Naomi was a widow,
Job lost everything,
John the Baptist ate locusts,
Peter was hot-tempered,
John was self-righteous,
the disciples fell asleep while praying,
Martha was worried about everything,
Mary was too lazy,
Mary Magdalene was demon-possessed,
the boy with the fish and five rolls of bread was too unknown (and still is),
the Samaritan woman slept with many men,
Zacchaeus was too small,
Peter was too impulsive,
Mark had given up,
Timothy had a stomach ulcer,
and Lazarus - he was dead."
- Peter Reid

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