Destiny's Claim

Thursday, September 09, 2004

Just yesterday i realised how appropriate the analogy of Christians being the "body of Christ" is.

We always read/hear/study of how God does miracles in the Old Testament days and that He was among man at that time. What awoke me to the realization was when my friend asked me in all honesty, "do you think God still works miracles today, in this age of technology and science?" Of course my answer would be yes, but it got me thinking how He does miracles, since we don't really see pillars of fire and smoke nowadays. So how does He touch lives?

He uses His people.

Yeah that's what the title means. I'm not trying to be blasphemous and say that God can't do without us; I'm trying to say that God works through us. As i've been told before, we can't work without God, but God won't work without us. He touches other people through us. We are His Hands when do what He wants. We are His eyes when we see what can be done in His name. He uses the ordinary to do the extraordinary. And we're not the first. God has used fishermen, tax collectors, shoe-shiners, and centurions before.

Carry your candle, run to the darkness
Seek out the helpless, confused and poor
Hold out your candle for all to see it
Take your candle, and go light your world.

Just your world. You don't have to light someone else's world in which you don't live in; just the world in which you do. Use that candle.

simply jon.pondered @ 1:02 pm

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