The Bible does not write puff pieces concerning those people who grace its pages. There are no perfect people recorded in the Bible, and there are no perfect people in His church. What the Bible does record is God’s perfection and His greatness, which is made most visible in His ability to transform that, which is so visibly flawed. Even more amazing to me as I consider this truth is that God’s greatness and confidence in His ability to perfect the imperfect is seen in the fact that He uses that which is still flawed as an instrument to help perfect others.
It is like a master painter painting the Mona Lisa with a stick found in the forest. Paul spoke of such truth in 1 Cor. 10:11, saying, “All these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.” Simply put, God uses our failures and frailties as lessons to teach others, as He did with those who again grace the pages of scripture.