Be Menial, Unimportant, & Lowly

I have good news for you. Wouldn't you want to be a tool in God's hands? Wouldn't you want God to use you for His glory? Well He will, and here's why. God will use you friend, because you are no one special. You are insignificant. You are menial and unimportant. This is where your hope lies. God usually uses these types of people, because if God used someone powerful, someone famous, someone accomplished, if God used someone like that, they would think they did it on their own. They would not honor God, and they would boast in themselves. God uses weak things, to confound the vain wisdom of man. God uses insignificant people, because an insignificant person knows how small we really can be. Therefore, he is less likely to exhibit an unhealthy ego, and more likely to give glory to God. In fact, there is power in realizing your insignificance, as there is power in laying aside any power you may have. The word "meekness" in one sense means "power under control". Power, out of control, is a destructive force. But you take a drive-shaft and gears, then subdue that in a gear box, or a crankcase, and you realize the potential for real power. In reality, humans are a mixture of greatness and wretchedness, a.k.a., power and weakness. We are wretched because we have a sin nature which continually wants its way. We hurt others, and we harm ourselves. We are great, because God designed us to commune with Him, and of all created life, we are "Exhibit A" on Planet Earth. We are living and immortal, because God created us as spiritual creatures. Yet I speak today to those who are lowly, unimportant, menial and mundane. I encourage you. You have what it takes. You do! The truth is, we would all be better off if we saw ourselves as meek, yielding creatures, who cared for others, as much as we care for ourselves. One day we will dwell with God, and then the braggadocios, egocentric fools, will be passive, listless, and self-respectful. It's like the two men cursing on the corner, telling a dirty joke, and then the preacher walks by. They get quiet, then let out a, "good morning Preacher!" If they do this when the preacher walks by, what do you think they will be like when the One who made the sun walks by? But it's the little things in life that are so special. It's the trillions of little people that make the deciding difference. When someone or something gets too big, or flies too high, they burn out very fast, they have no staying power. Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare. The hare had the speed, that's for sure. But in the end, it was the tenacity, and the unrelenting scruples of the tortoise, that conquered. The tortoise looked menial, unskilled, lowly, and a sure underdog, but with a heart that wouldn't quit, and a motif and methodology from Creator God, sooner or later he was sure to win. Everybody wrote him off, and the hare certainly did. And, everybody has written you off too! I hope you know that by now. They sure wrote me off. But I have good news! There is company here at the bottom. There is A Carpenter with nail scars in His hands. The bottom is a good place to be. And now I know, it's the only place for me. GBY! Happiness comes in knowing that you are exactly where you belong!