Deuteronomy 9:5 KJV
Not for thy righteousness, or for the
uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the
wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before
thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Moses urged the
Jews to never forget that God did not choose them for their own righteousness
but to always remember that they were a stiff-necked people. God used them
because there was a need. That is all.
It is no
different today. Those God uses to minister to others are no better than those
they minister to. They are simply the ones God has called for that
ministry.
We do wrong to
gloat and lift ourselves in self-righteous pride at our accomplishments. Some
of them are not accomplishments at all but merely the temporal work of man. We
serve God
- Because he has called
us to it
- Because there is a
need
We have no
right to snub our noses at those whose position seems to us as less than our
own. We are what we are because God made what we are. God made us what we
are so we might be a help to others in need.
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