Why does God use people the world considers unqualified or not properly fitted for service?
God chooses the weak, base, despised, and things that are not to confound the mighty and bring to nothing things that are, so no flesh can glory in His presence. He does not use what the world thinks is proper and rightly fitted for service, ensuring all credit goes to Him.
Les explains that God hath chosen the weak things of the world, the things we would normally say don't count, to confound things which are mighty. He also chooses the base things, things which are despised, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are. Les admits he is a nothing and a nobody, yet feels God has seen fit to use him because He does not use that which the world thinks is proper and has been rightly fitted for service. The reason is that no flesh should glory, boast, brag, or get puffed up in His presence. Wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption are all things God accomplished, and no man can take credit for them.
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
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What kinds of people and things has God chosen to use, according to 1 Corinthians 1?
God deliberately chose the weak, base, despised, and 'not' things of the world — the things people normally say don't count — in order to confound the mighty and bring to nothing the things that are.