Was talking to bro wanderer about the great servants of God, among them was Smith Wigglesworth, who God used to heal so many people but he himself wasn't healed from his kidney illness. Then there was John G. Lake whose wife died due to malnutrition. How could the God who provides for the sparrow abandon these servants of Him?
I was thinking and asking God as I prepared an article. And as I was doing my favorite business in the loo, which is essentially my place of enlightening in many occasions, it occured to me that, well not to say that this is God's answer whatsoever, but it just occured to me, an illustration that might explain the above cases.
It all began when I read this:
Smith was saddened in the last month of his life, as he commented: "Today in my mail, I had an invitation to Australia, one to India and Ceylon, and one to America. People have their eyes on me"
Sadly, he began to weep: "Poor Wigglesworth. What a failure to think that people have their eyes on me. God will never give His glory to another; He will take me from the scene."
The above two paragraph was taken from here
His words kept resounding in my mind. What a deep understanding of God, what a humility to be able to see beyond all the glory. And indeed, that was probably the key.
Come to think of it. Say you visit the number one swordsmith in the realm. The man who is well known for his ability to forge supreme swords. What will you praise when you see him? His skill or his hammer?
Now imagine you are that swordsmith and everyone praise your hammer instead of your skill. They start to believe that other hammer in your hand would not be able to forge that good a sword. How would you react?
Surely you can't let them be misled because you, of all people, know that your hammer is never the key. You can come up with the same or better hammer if you want to. And your hammer would not last forever. And probably the hammer that is used more extensively is the one with more 'tear' and 'wound'. The less used ones would be the more shiny ones.
Will that not be amusing that people expect your hammer to look fantastic while the whole point is your skill and the swords you forge?
We, and Smith Wigglesworth, and the others servants of the Lord, are probably those hammers. The less glamourous we are, the more evident His skill is. The weaker we are, the more evident His strenght is. It's an honour to be His hammer and when it's time for us to retire and other hammers would take over, no question need to be asked. The swordsmith knows the best.
I was thinking and asking God as I prepared an article. And as I was doing my favorite business in the loo, which is essentially my place of enlightening in many occasions, it occured to me that, well not to say that this is God's answer whatsoever, but it just occured to me, an illustration that might explain the above cases.
It all began when I read this:
Smith was saddened in the last month of his life, as he commented: "Today in my mail, I had an invitation to Australia, one to India and Ceylon, and one to America. People have their eyes on me"
Sadly, he began to weep: "Poor Wigglesworth. What a failure to think that people have their eyes on me. God will never give His glory to another; He will take me from the scene."
The above two paragraph was taken from here
His words kept resounding in my mind. What a deep understanding of God, what a humility to be able to see beyond all the glory. And indeed, that was probably the key.
Come to think of it. Say you visit the number one swordsmith in the realm. The man who is well known for his ability to forge supreme swords. What will you praise when you see him? His skill or his hammer?
Now imagine you are that swordsmith and everyone praise your hammer instead of your skill. They start to believe that other hammer in your hand would not be able to forge that good a sword. How would you react?
Surely you can't let them be misled because you, of all people, know that your hammer is never the key. You can come up with the same or better hammer if you want to. And your hammer would not last forever. And probably the hammer that is used more extensively is the one with more 'tear' and 'wound'. The less used ones would be the more shiny ones.
Will that not be amusing that people expect your hammer to look fantastic while the whole point is your skill and the swords you forge?
We, and Smith Wigglesworth, and the others servants of the Lord, are probably those hammers. The less glamourous we are, the more evident His skill is. The weaker we are, the more evident His strenght is. It's an honour to be His hammer and when it's time for us to retire and other hammers would take over, no question need to be asked. The swordsmith knows the best.
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