Eyes of Man

"What God considers His chosen is rarely if ever adequate in the eyes of man."

       Have you ever been picked by God to do something, be somewhere, be apart of a team etc and yet those surrounding the very place God's called you make it clear you're not adequate - you're not enough and you're not wanted. People don't have to come out and say, "I don't like you" for you to know you're unwanted. Their lack of consideration, sharpness, hard exterior make it clear.

      When God chooses to use someone, He's not thinking about what man thinks about. When we want to fill a spot of some sort (job, friendship etc) we often think of earthly things like looks. Does the person look the part? We also think about personality. Does this person click with me? When God looks at filling a spot He sees deep into a person's heart. It's the heart that qualifies. 

        We often miss out on knowing special people that could truly bless us and us them because our qualifications are way off and eternally meaningless. Choosing our pick over God's pick will throw everything off because the person's heart does not line up with what God's trying to sow or counter act. The Lord uses people to bless and He may see something we don't. He knows what we need in our lives, our families lives or companies to insure we continue flourishing on  the right path. But we often want what's comfortable and normal, but it's those very things God tries to cleanse us of.

       Our automatic reaction when seeing someone that does not belong is to criticize. We begin to wonder who made a mistake and allowed this person in our circle? If it's a job maybe the person who gave the recommendation made a mistake. If it's a friendship maybe we made the mistake. Either way we begin trying to figure how this "mistake" got here, and even how to get rid of them.

       I've learned over the years that it's very hard to cross over into different circles and areas where you stick out like a sore thumb. It's difficult because there are a number of unseen road blocks, hurdles, and  social check points. If you haven't been groomed correctly there is no way to continue when one of these blockages occur. It's for this reason when someone odd or out of place shows up in my life I try to find the purpose behind their presence. There has to be a reason. They obviously didn't get here by themselves.I try to keep an open mind, but most importantly an open heart.