This is intended for our ladies group at Ridge Recovery, but if it speaks to you then it was intended for you as well.

Good morning ladies. I have found myself reflecting on Kevin’s devotional a lot since Tuesday. Part of it for me was that God uses the unlikely, the unconsecrated, the unimpressive. I am all of these things! I honestly don’t even fully comprehend unconsecrated, but I get the gest… It’s me. I have found myself in a place where God is using me! In this Chaplain training I am working along side senior pastors, licensed therapists, and people with degrees in religion and theology. The only thing I have to offer is 2 semesters of an incomplete associates degree in business (that I picked because there was no required algebra) and a long list of God’s grace and redemption from my own choices or other people’s choices that directly effected me. God appointed me to this position, He called me to this opportunity to serve regardless of my credentials or lack of. So when you come to a point in your life that you feel unworthy, not smart enough, not skilled enough please remember these words! Just like David, the little boy tending sheep that was called to be king above all the other more likely and qualified brothers YOU are called to a higher purpose. No matter your past, or your present HE knows your future and he wants you to follow Him.

1 Corinthians 1:26-31New International Version (NIV)

26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him. 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”