A man, after hitting a hole-in-one, shook everyone's hand he could on the course. After all, it had been 20 year of trying. Seeing an old man he waited until the man finished his swing before bragging on the hole-in-one. Just then he noticed that the man's club was nothing more then a rock, strapped on the end of a crooked stick. The old-timer wound-up and struck the ball with a mighty force, and the ball flew toward the green. Higher and higher. Then it plopped in the hole without even a bounce. This hole was twice as long as the boastful golfer's hole-in-one. Awestruck, the man could not speak, and the old man turned to him and said, "That makes it 18 in a row."
Now who is the better golfer?
1 Corinthians 1:28
He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things -- and the things that are not -- to nullify the things that are,
Do you see that God golfs with a rock, strapped on the end of a crooked stick? What glory is found in hitting the ball with a perfect driver? God chooses the flawed, ruined, broken, weak, and ill to magnify His ability.
I hope you see your value to the kingdom is found in your availability; not your ability.
I ask you to love those who have hurt you; and to love them is to forgive them as I have forgiven them and you. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 6 - Understand Love, Know Forgiveness, Partake of the Whole Fruit of the Spirit and Make It Part of You]