The kind of people God is looking for

God is looking for people who will obey Him despite being called troublemakers like Paul, people who have the courage to change their names to "Father of a multitude" despite being childless like Abraham, people unafraid to build an ark without a single cloud in sight like Noah, people who would rather be put in a furnace than bow before false gods like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, people unashamed to collect empty vessels from neighbors who knew their desperate condition like Elijah's widow at the word of the prophet, people who declared the truth of God's Word in the face of a hostile multitude who would stone them to death like Stephen, people who never stopped praying to the true God in spite of a political curfew against it like Daniel thus risking being cast into a den of lions. He is looking for people who will put Him above all fear of death, starvation, persecution, ridicule, isolation, people who "count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ."