One thing I notice in the Bible is how many deeply flawed people God still chose to work through.
Moses doubted, David failed badly, Peter denied Jesus, yet they still had purpose.
I wonder what that is supposed to teach us.
I believe it allows us to see nobody is perfect and even when we stumble and fall, like a caring parent God brushes the dirt from our scrapes, wipes our tears and embraces us.
when we rebel, like the parent of a wayward teen, He takes us back in with admonishment but also love unconditional.
when we fall away into life as adults and end up hurt or indebted, addicted or lost. He is still there as our Father, to help pick up the pieces and rebuild.
just an opinion
“That with man it is impossible, but not with God, with God all things are possible.” Perhaps He does so to simply point out, of course, it was not the person He chose, but God Himself is the one who did it.
Peter
*'And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” *
For when I am weak, then I am strong.’
I think this is the answer.
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" Why do you think God worked through imperfect people so often?
My immediate thought is: “Who else did He have to work with?” (Romans 3:10)
Even, so I get the point, and I appreciate the prompt.
I think the question is addressed succinctly by the apostle Paul who wrote,
"…we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. (2 Corinthians 4:7)
So, we recognize that:
“God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. (1 Corinthians 1:27-29).
The beloved apostle places himself firmly in this category of “weak vessels” when he says:
"And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. 1 Corinthians 2:1-5
The Word does not leave us guessing, or assuming when it comes to this question. God often reiterates His reason for choosing the weak, the least, the smallest, the broken, the unattractive, the underestimated, the forgotten, the widows and orphans; God demonstrates His Own Glory by His Love, care, and paternal attention to the “least of these”, our Brethren.
(IMHO)
KP
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God is teaching us, @ellenvera, that weak believers strengthened ONLY by God through Jesus by the Spirit are more than conquerors over strong evil.
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Rom 8:36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
Rom 8:37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.