do you feel useless?

Do you sometimes feel useless? You look at fellow believers around you. They all seem so gifted & talented. You look at yourself. You seem so worthless. You feel so ordinary. You see yourself as a second-rate Christian with no special gifts or talents to offer to God.

It doesn't matter who you were yesterday, what happened to you or what you did. God wants you to know you are worth much more than sparrows to Him. God wants to do something with your lives today. The poem below tells how God picks a vessel for His use. God can use you. God can make you beautiful in His eyes.

The chosen vessel

"Take me," cried the gold one.
"I'm shiny and bright, I'm of great value and I do things just right."

But God passes by the gold, silver, brass, crystal,
and wooden urns, and chooses the vessel of clay.

Then the Master looked down and saw the vessel of clay.
Empty and broken, it helplessly lay.

No hope had the vessel that the Master might choose,
To cleanse and make whole, to fill and to use.

"Ah! This is the vessel I've been hoping to find,
I will mend and use it and make it all mine."

Then gently He lifted the vessel of clay.
Mended and cleansed it and filled it that day.

Spoke to it kindly, "There's work you must do,
Just pour out to others as I pour into you."

Why would God deliberately choose improbable people? I believe it is because He wants to make clear that the power lies in Him, not in us. When people observe drastic healing and transformation in their broken lives, their eyes turn toward Him.

Throughout the ages, God continually chose to heal and transform the most improbable candidates. And He never changes. From the beginning, his permanent and everlasting plan was to save us from life’s wounds as well as our own disasters.

nothing can separate us from the love of God,
sockkim