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Years ago Linda, Dan, and Josh went with me to
Singapore, where I taught at a Chinese seminary for 20 days. Good friends connected us with David and Sue Pickard of Overseas Missionary
Fellowship. David was the director
of OMF, which used to be China Inland Mission, founded by Hudson Taylor.
David and Sue had us over for dinner. It was
Josh's birthday and they had prepared a meal and had a cake for Josh. After the celebration, David showed us Hudson
Taylor's Bible. That was an awesome moment! Taylor was taken out of his comfort
zone and used of God even though he was out of his depths. How was this
possible? Taylor said:
“God
chose me because I was weak enough. God does not do his work by large
committees. He trains somebody to be quiet enough, and little enough, and then
uses him.”
I love how Oswald Chambers expresses this truth:
“God can achieve his purpose either through the absence of human power and
resources, or the abandonment of reliance on them. All through history God has
chosen and used nobodies, because their unusual dependence on him made possible
the unique display of his power and grace. He chose and used somebodies only
when they renounced dependence on their natural abilities and resources.”
I am to stay quiet and small. I must become a nobody so that Christ can become
Somebody in me.
