Sometimes, something impossible grows, sprouts from the small, the raw….

Its wonderful to think of the fact that God can turn around a whole nation, a whole world, by using us. God uses simple things, you know that. He uses simple, mundane, everyday, routine, common things for the most amazing purposes. When He made man in the Garden, He didn’t use gold, silver, or even iron; He used dirt. That ought to give you an idea of how He works right from the start. When He called David to deliver Israel from the Philistines, He didn’t want Saul, the great king and He didn’t want Saul’s massive armor. He used a shepherd and a couple of stones, that’s all. When He came into the world, He didn’t enter the family of the wealthy and noble. He didn’t find Himself born in a castle; He simply chose a peasant girl and a stable. When He chose the Twelve, He didn’t choose the elite, educated, and affluent. He just chose a group of Ignorant Galileans. The Bible says, ‘Not many mighty, and not many noble.’ That’s the way it always has been, because God gets the greater glory in the humbleness of the one that He uses. So He uses us, grains of sand, to influence a corrupting world.

-John MacArthur, In a sermon titled “You are the Light of the World.”

When did we (I) start expecting to outgrow child-like reliance? At what age did we (I)think we would lose the desperation? When did we (I) expect to be mighty and noble? Prestigious? Competent?

God uses the weak, the base, the foolish.

And praise God, we (I!) still qualify.

In awe before God,

~Amie~