One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles.
Luke 6:12-13
Choosing His twelve apostles was a crucial decision Jesus had to make. They were going to be the ones entrusted with the responsibility of taking His Gospel to the world. So, whom does Jesus choose?
We might expect Him to look for
extraordinary people, to find the spiritual supermen of the time. The reality is, He called a group of extremely ordinary people who had no idea or quality of being great, but who, in His years of training them, had to break their self-sufficiency until they lived out of the disposition of *‘not I, but Christ.’*
No wonder Paul wrote to a later generation, ‘ *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. 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. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things and the things that are not to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him’ (1Corinthians 1:26-29).
If you fit those categories, you qualify as a disciple of Jesus.
Our qualification for being a disciple of Christ is exchanging our weakness
for His strength.
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, thank You for using me as I am. Your strength in my weakness.
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