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In the Bible, God seems to favor using weak and/or damaged people
God chose David who was the least of all his brothers in size and stature to slay the giant Goliath and later become king of Israel.
1 Samuel 16:7
God chose Moses who stuttered horribly and was said to be the meekest man who ever lived to go to the Pharoah of Egypt to demand he release the Hebrew people. He begged God to chose someone else but lost that battle.
Exodus 4:10“Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”
God chose Rahab, a prostitute from the city of Jericho to join the Hebrew nation where her blood line ran to Jesus himself in Matthew 1:5. God used her also to spy out the city of Jericho where she helped the Hebrew nation conquer it.
God chose Gideon to deliver God's people from the Philistines. When God chose him, his response was, "“But Lord, how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family” (Judges 6:15). Like Moses, he begged God to choose someone else.
In fact, God chose the Hebrew people who were the lowest of the low in all the earth.
Deuteronomy 7 "Israel, you are the chosen people of the LORD your God. There are many nations on this earth, but he chose only Israel to be his very own. You were the weakest of all nations,"
And today, God calls those same weak people today, people who are disenfranchised from the political elite, people who are disenfranchised from the wealth of the world and power in the world, to continue to do his work on earth.
I think God does this to demonstrate his power as well as because the meekest and weakest of people don't have ego's that impede him working through them.
That is all.
Have a great day everyone.
