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Have you ever felt unqualified or that you just weren’t the right person for the job? Has God ever asked something of you and you thought to yourself “Why me? ask “so and so” they would do such a better job than me.” If you have thought that, welcome to my world. It’s extremely easy for me somethings to think “who am I to be serving in the house of the Lord” or “who am I to be the one to share the good new to hundreds of young people each week in the church as well as in our local high schools”. I mean if you think about it, I have not even been saved for 10 years, I did not grow up in the ways or the house of the Lord, my native language is french and I have only been speaking English for the last 11 years or so, i was pretty much always below average in school, I was no were near “Mr. Popular” in school either, and the list can go on. All this to say that in my own human mind and through my own human eyes, it does not make sense that God can use me in the ways that He is using me. I am so glad that God does not look at us the same way that we look at ourselves.

Someone bought me a book recently called “The youth worker’s guide to helping teenagers in crisis.” FANTASTIC book by the way. There was a quote in the book that really caught my eye and caused me to read it over a few times: “Madeleine L’Engle put it nicely: In a very real sense, not one of us is qualified but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do His work, to bear His glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think we have done the job ourselves. If we are focused to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there’s no danger that we will confuse God’s work with our own or God’s glory with our own.”

In conclusion, let me say this. I’m so grateful that I get to be used by God!