Exactly as it is. The messy parts, the parts you are ashamed of, the parts you have never said out loud, all of it. Not in spite of those things but because of them. Your story does not just give God glory. It magnifies it. And there is a difference. We have spent this whole series looking at who God actually chooses to use. The last. The small. The ones with the jacked-up past. The ones who were overlooked, written off, behind, or disqualified in the world's eyes. And the qu

No. And Scripture does not just say that gently. It proves it repeatedly, loudly, and with some of the most unlikely people you will ever read about. Your past is not a disqualifier. For God, it is often exactly the thing that qualifies you. This is the question a lot of us carry but do not say out loud. We have been in church. We have been saved. We love God. And still, somewhere in the back of our minds, we have a running list of things we have done that we quietly believe