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that sometimes God uses the wrong things
from our perspective
to accomplish his purpose
in our life sometimes God uses something
that we would never see coming or
someone that we would never see coming
to help us or to instruct us or to
challenge us or to grow us so watch the
left hand I went out and took this
boxing lesson the other day and I don’t
know if I’m going to go back because
I got these these uh these injured
shoulders these 43 year old men injuries
so I gotta weigh the cost benefit
of going out there and doing this this
MMA at this stage in my life but when he
was teaching me the the boxing stuff
um
he said I’m glad you you know your
stance because one time a guy showed me
that because I’m right-handed
I don’t lead with my right foot
that the leg that my power comes from
boom my right hand I’m going to Pivot
off that leg so I I don’t want to stand
up right now and demonstrate this
because I might scare you but your left
leg leads
right and then you pivot from the hip to
get the power
from the right hand
so
I’m leading with the leg that’s not on
my strong side
so power can come from the back
now
I probably need to take another boxing
lesson or two before I start teaching
this principle publicly but between me
and you I think that
is in itself kind of a metaphor
for the fact that sometimes God will
lead with something that looks like
weakness left leg weak side
because the power is in the pivot
so that his power watch this his right
hand
can do the work
God sent a left-handed deliverer
and you know I don’t know the
percentages but there are less
left-handed people
and particularly in the military some
commentators say that it was unusual for
a left-handed
a left-handed
Marksman or a left-handed Archer or a
left-handed Slinger to be promoted in
the ranks you know the right-handed
people but first well we’re going to see
all through the Book of Judges as I come
back to these devotions while we’re
doing our personal family reading from
the Book of Judges we’re going to see
over and over again
hey
sometimes God is going to do something
and he’s going to lead with the left
he’s going to lead with the thing that
we don’t expect
and many times in your life you are
diminishing what makes you different
and Destiny is sometimes in your
difference
you are comparing yourself so much to
others who you think oh they’re the
right person they’re the they do it the
right way they got the right stuff
you know the New Kids on the Block
weren’t the only ones singing about you
got the right stuff we all look at
somebody else well she got the right
stuff he’s got the right stuff
um
I guess God can use them how smart they
are
wow I guess God can use them oh God
charismatic there I guess God can use
them
look what all their parents taught them
look what they inherited stop talking
about that and look in the left hand
what do you have
that is uniquely you
that God can use
for his purpose
Isaiah said I am like an arrow my mouth
is like an arrow that God has hidden
it is hidden because it is significant
you are hidden because you are
significant
really important things you put away
or thieves can’t break in and steal
right
God has things locked inside of you
he’s locked them because they are
valuable he has locked the treasure the
resource of your contribution
of your spiritual gift
of your acts of service and when the
time is right
he’s going to bring you forth and use
you
and so the idea that
he locked the door what’s the
significance of him locking the door and
it says in a later verse that they found
the key and unlocked the door where the
King was sitting there Dead with his
gut spilling out