Isn't there somebody else better?

^{Matthew 1:3} Judah fathered Perez and Zerah by Tamar

In Jesus' geneaology we see a list of characters who are not really the gold standard of living for God. What's crazy and cool is to look back at scripture and look at the stories of people who messed up time and time again and how God used these people to bring about the birth of the Messiah. For those of us who have already come to know Jesus, sometimes we find it hard to beleive that God would use us. Often times the thought is, "I'm not smart enough, good enough, christian enough, I don't know as much as I'd like to about the Bible and I don't have the answers to all the questions."

As my old buddy Andrew Foote used to say--God is in the habit of drawing straight lines with crooked sticks. I'd even go as far to tweak this saying to God is in the business of making straight sticks out of crooked sticks. Read Genesis 38, God uses human mistakes to work together something good. This story shows that just becuase something good comes out of the situation doesn't make any of it easier. There was mourning , trouble, arguing, hardship but in the end, beyond what Judah and Tamar would ever see, good came out of it because God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love Him. This doesn't mean it doesn't matter what we do, read Romans 6...If God used them, couldn't He use you?