While reading the story I felt like I was reading the same story of Moses and the burning bush. It seems that everyone God chooses to use seems to be the "most unqualified and weakest." My wife and I have been discussing and struggling with the desires to become more involved with missionary work this year. We have been on two trips to Mexico in the past six months, and I must say they are quite addictive and powerful. Either way, we find ourselves saying, "How can God use us. We are just ordinary people with no special skills or training." It seems like every time we say this, I am confronted with another story of God using an ordinary "under qualified" person that God uses to accomplish His plan. See, God loves to use the ordinary. It seems that these are the people that have to lean on God more and ultimately all of the glory goes to God, not the individual. It's these ordinary people that can use ordinary acts of kindness and love, to show the widows and the orphans of our world the hope of God. God really used our recent trip to Mazatlan, Mexico to teach us about his power and plan for our lives and the lives of orphans all across the world. I will write a blog about the whole trip soon. If you get a chance, check out http://back2back.org/ and see what Back2Back Ministries is doing in Mexico. God is really using them to bring hope to a dark world.
