I was reading in Corinthians this morning and came across the passage below.  It is encouraging to me that God uses humility and love for Him rather than eloquence or human ability...He uses weaknesses rather than strengths to reveal His power and His strength.  It is encouraging because I fall into the inarticulate and weak category...it is enocurgaing because everyone wants their life to be significant...to matter.  I am very glad that real success...real significance is dependant on His ability and not my own. Paul was not a gifted speaker (at least that's what he says)...he most often didn't write things by his own hand...he claims to be foolish...and yet God used him in exactly those avenues because Paul loved the Lord.  I am glad Father is not a performance driven Father or I'd be forever lacking.  I'd be forever comparing myself to the next guy or my gifts to someone elses.  I'd be forever longing to be somewhere I am not.  I am glad I can just relax and let Him use me as He sees fit...wherever He has me...abilities or not.  How great is our God!

1 Corinthians 1:26-2:5 "Brothers, 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. He 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. 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. Therefore, as it is written: 'Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.' When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power."