Since I was a small child, I've been attending Sunday school and listening attentively or making art on the walls of the church, but only until now that I ponder why God chose those losers to be His chosen.
1. Abraham.
Ah yes, the old man with a wife that can't have one. Funny thing about Abraham is that God made Him the father of all nations BEFORE he even bore a child. And the thing is God commanded him to slay Isaac as a sacrifice to Him! Maybe Abraham was thinking, “How the hell can I become the father of nations if he will kill my only son at a very old age?” Beats me. But, we know how the story goes anyway.
2. Moses.
Moses was an adopted child. He was found on a river floating in a crib made of straw. As he grew, he was able to learn how to write and given the finest Egyptian education. He was supposed to be the heir to the Pharaoh's throne and yet that didn't happen. He has murdered a man and been forced to leave and wander the wilderness on his own, supposedly he would eventually die, but that also didn't happen. He met an angel and the burning bush and the holy ground. God has given him a staff with extraordinary powers, which supposedly as the heir to the throne should be a scepter. Moses become the leader, not of Egypt, but the Israeli people.
3. Noah
Noah is stupid to those people at his time. Imagine, building an ark for a flood in a climate that never floods in days? AND, there are only eight laborers to build this ark that will be occupied by dumb animals? Yet, as the story goes, they were the only people saved in this earth.
4. Joseph
He was papa's favorite. He gets the best clothes, best in everything, yet he was sold to a caravan as an Egyptian slave. He lost everything: his rights, clothes, money, and freedom when he was put in jail. In short, his situation was hopeless. But, God never left him. He was given the gift of interpreting dreams and was given the highest honor a pharaoh can give: second in command in all Egypt. The funny thing was there came a famine and people were flocking to buy grains, food to eat in Egypt. The very same brothers that sold him were saved because of Joseph and met a happy ending.
5. Elijah “The Coward”
Elijah is just a coward. He is fleeing away from the crutches of an evil queen. He fled to the wilderness and being fed by a dumb bird. He went to a house to find shelter that only a helpless widow and a child living there. As the story goes, He showed himself to the King; challenged the priests of dumb idols; laughed at them; even humiliated them on their faces and became the courageous prophet.
6. Saul, Paul
Saul is the alter ego of Paul. Saul is the bad guy; killing innocent Christians with the vision of eliminating Christians from the face of the Earth. Paul is the good guy, sooo good that he gave his life even preaching Christ for three straight years, from morning till night, non-stop just to convert vicious unbelievers to become God's Holy people.
Ok, now that I convinced you how wise God's foolishness is, then it's easier to understand God's wisdom.
