So [Gideon] said to Him, “O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” Judges 6:15

Recommended Reading

1 Samuel 16:1-7

John and Charles Wesley, the fathers of Methodism, were raised in poverty. The mother of the great evangelist, D. L. Moody, gave her son to others to raise because of her poverty. The British missionary-scholar to India, William Carey, was apprenticed as a cobbler as a young boy. David, Israel’s great king, was the least of all the brothers in his family when he was anointed. And Gideon, the judge who delivered Israel from the Midianites, was a weak member of the weakest clan in the tribe of Manasseh.

God seems to delight in choosing “the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and . . . the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty” (1 Corinthians 1:27). God is not looking for wealth or status or power. Yes, He can use the powerful in this world (like the apostle Paul), but only after they have been humbled (like the apostle Paul).

The fact that God doesn’t need our wealth or power means we all qualify to be used by Him! It is our open hands and hearts that make us useful to Him.

Just as I am, though tossed about with many a conflict, many a doubt, fightings and fears within, without, O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

Charlotte Elliott

Read-Thru-the-Bible

Exodus 14–16

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