Imperfection

One of my favorite themes in Scripture is borne out in the latter half of the book of Genesis. I love the fact that throughout the Bible, God uses imperfect people to do great things. First, God calls Abraham to do His work. Abraham's shortcomings include impatience, short-sightedness, and deceitfulness. In addition, God also greatly uses Joseph. Joseph is revealed to be impetuous and prideful. This theme is very reassuring to me. God's power is revealed more completely through his use of the fallible and the flawed. If He wanted to, God could do His business exclusively through blinding lights and burning bushes. Instead, He has chosen to do a real miracle and use people like us to do his work.