Worthless turned warrior!
Verse for Today: Monday, November 19,
2012
Judges 6:15 – “But Lord,” Gideon asked, “how can I
save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my
family.”
The world runs after the best qualified people to handle
special and formidable tasks. This has led the world into a battleground for
personalities and puffed up resumes. It has brought in cutthroat competition, bitter
debates, evidence-based leadership and informatics among peoples and nations.
But such qualifications are immaterial in God’s economy where what is abhorred by
the world is given a premium. Today God is looking for those who experience true
brokenness in their lives. He picks up the fearful and the inexperienced and
qualifies them provided they are willing to admit their nothingness before Him.
He uses a houseboy like Joseph to become a Prime Minister and a shepherd boy like
David to kill a giant through non-conventional means. He uses a person with a
speech impediment like Moses to make historic pronouncements even to emperors. He
uses a sycamore fruit gatherer like Amos to become a great prophet. He made
great Apostles out of unknown fishermen. He made a donkey to speak to a covetous
prophet. The greatest qualification for God to use a person is humility,
brokenness, emptiness and the willingness to admit it. When God called Gideon,
he was well aware of his weaknesses and nothingness. He was fearful and hiding
from the enemies. But when God equipped him, he became a great tool in God’s
hands to accomplish great things. God knows our hearts so well as to realize
whether we qualify even before He comes to us with the call. And He expects us
to express our total inadequacy before He uses us so that it would be known to
both us and others that our usefulness is out of our inability but God’s enabling.
Dear reader, do you feel utterly unqualified in serving God? Are
you aware of your nothingness and inadequacy to be of use to God? But this awareness
need not frustrate you because you are the child of a God who uses the base
things of this world to accomplish great things for Him. Our God values the
lowliest and the meekest. He takes a worthless stone from the field or a donkey’s
jaw-bone to accomplish His purposes. But if we are humble before Him, He will
be pleased to use us. He converts ordinary water into precious wine. He can
even use ravens to wait upon great prophets. He uses poorest widows in the
country to feed His servants during famine. A drop of oil and a bit of flour would
be sufficient for Him to feed a family for months together. He uses worms to
pull down big gourds. But our God abhors pride, arrogance and flamboyance. He
fills cups only when they are totally empty. He fills those who are empty of
themselves. He will not despise a truly
contrite person, but will build him up for divine purpose. God
wants to
make use of all His children, but not all gets used up in His service.
It depends
on our suitability as fit, but humble, broken and empty vessels in His
hands. Remember,
the proud and arrogant Sauls and Nebuchadnezzars will lose their
kingdoms,
crowns and thrones. But the humble shepherd boys, fishermen and
housemaids will
be used mightily by God. Today God is searching for those who are
willing to submit their unworthiness to Him so that He can make them fit
instruments to be of
use to Him. If we submit to Him, He will
remove our phobias, apprehensions and confusions and will fill us with His
enabling to make use of us. Our dark and fruitless days will be over when He
comes to commission us for His formidable tasks. We must discern His call and
respond by placing our broken hearts and lives wrapped in the rags of our lives
at His feet to put to His use in His own way.
Psalms 109:22 – For I am poor
and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Thought for Today
God puts a premium on
broken and base things which are surrendered to Him and makes use of it for His
glory.
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