"For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God."
Talk about straight forward stuff, "…so that no human being might boast in the presence of God." The triune God is too glorious and sovereign to share the credit with us. The great things that happens with our mission efforts must be a God thing, as 1 Corinthians 3:7 says, "So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth."
While there are the great heroes that we hold up as examples, and rightfully so, they all had their own sins and weaknesses that they took to the field. God purified each of them with suffering and sorrow. Why? To show his hand mighty so that these people didn't get confused and think it was their greatness that brought forth the fruit of souls.
God uses the weak broken vessels simply because there are no other kind of redeemed humans. God can, as one of my professors used to say, "Strike many a straight lick with a crooked stick." So, join the crowd of crooked sticks and weak vessels. Look how you might be more involved in missions, for God is making a great name for himself.
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