“Who Does God Use?”

That’s a good question.

It seems to me that God uses “nobodies” a lot more than “somebodies!” When God called David, he was a teenager taking care of his father’s sheep. If you were looking for someone to fight off a 9-foot giant and all his gear, it wouldn’t be a teenager with a slingshot! When God called Moses to deliver a million Jewish slaves from the hand of Pharoah, Moses told the Lord, “But I am of slow speech and of a slow tongue… I can’t talk good!” When God called Gideon to deliver Israel from the Midianites, Gideon was hiding his father’s “wheat,” in fear of the Midianites, by the wine press, but he was also hiding himself! He said, “Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? My family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house?” But God used him to deliver His people! And when Jesus sat by “Jacob’s Well,” he was looking for someone to “spread the Gospel” and to tell the good news! He could have used anyone, a woman of good character, but instead he used a prostitute, who got converted, left her water pot, went into the city, and said, “Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did! Is not this the Christ?” (John 4:29)

Don’t ever doubt that God can use you or anyone He chooses, because He never makes a mistake! All He is looking for is a willing heart.

Sherry