We often look at present-day influential figures, relatives and mentors to motivate and shape us while overlooking some of our greatest teachers in the Bible. If you desire true knowledge, wisdom, and insight, you can find it in Scripture.

Who told you that God couldn’t use you because your past is imperfect? Who said that being a hot mess at one point in time—even if that time was recent—would exclude you forever from doing great things for God?

We’ve got to stop judging people, even if those people are ourselves, for not being perfect. Though we strive to please the Lord, He does not need our lives to be spotless to use us for His glory.

Go to the Word of God, your inexhaustible resource, and immerse yourself in the true stories of the men and women of faith before us that believed God and saw Him do the miraculous.