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Henry Poppen, one of China’s first
missionaries, spent forty years telling its people about the love of Jesus
and how He died to take away their sin. One day, after he had finished
speaking, a man approached him and said, ‘We know this Jesus! He’s been
here.’ Dr Poppen explained how that wasn’t possible because Jesus had lived
and died long ago in a country far from China. ‘Oh no,’ the man insisted, ‘He
died here. I can even show you his grave.’ He led Dr. Poppen outside the city
to a cemetery where an American was buried. There, inscribed on a crumbling
gravestone was the name of a medical doctor who felt called by God to live
and die among the people of this remote Chinese village. And when its people
heard Dr Poppen describe the attributes of Jesus—His mercy, His love, His
kindness, His willingness to forgive—they remembered the missionary doctor.
God will use you when you’re
willing to become ‘clay in the potter’s hand’.
Clay has no aspirations; it’s mouldable,
pliable and completely subject to the potter’s will. Henry Blackaby says:
‘When God’s assignment demands humility, He finds a servant willing to be
humbled. When it requires zeal, He looks for someone He can fill with His
Spirit. God uses holy vessels, so He finds those who’ll allow Him to remove
their impurities. It’s not a noble task being clay.
There’s no glamour to it, nothing
boast-worthy, except it’s exactly what God’s looking for.’
Reference : UCB Word For Today
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