Good Morning Friends,
God uses ordinary people. That’s the thought
that struck me as I read the early part of the book of Amos. That book begins
--
“The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of
Tekoa.” (Amos 1:1)
Amos was just a shepherd. He was going about
his task of tending the sheep when the Lord spoke to him. God used this
ordinary shepherd to bring His message of warning to the people.
David was a shepherd, too. That’s what he was
doing when God called him to face Goliath. Just an ordinary shepherd doing
extraordinary things by faith.
Matthew was an accountant. Peter, Andrew,
James and John were fishermen. Just ordinary people doing ordinary things when
God called them to be His spokesmen.
And God still uses ordinary people. You don’t
have to have a theological degree. You don’t have to be ordained. You don’t
have to be employed by a church. God uses engineers and accountants and lawyers
and doctors and loggers and carpenters and mechanics and nurses and secretaries
and all other sorts of ordinary men and women. People doing ordinary things
when God calls them to be His spokesmen, His tools to touch the lives of
others.
He may call you to a short-term assignment --
just to talk to some person He brings across your path. He may call you to a
long-term assignment of one sort or another. Just because we are ordinary
doesn’t mean that God won’t use us. The ordinary folks are the folks God has
always used -- and will be until He’s done with this world.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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