God Uses Nobodies

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 5th of March, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. 

We start in Isaiah 45:22: 

"Look to Me, and be saved,…" 

Then we go straight to the Gospel of Matthew 11:28:

"Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." 

I want to say to those people today who are listening to this message and say, "I am not a preacher, I don't seem to be able to do much for the Lord, I am basically a nobody." I want to tell you that God uses nobodies. Many, many years ago in the 1800's, there was a young teenager trying to get home one night and a severe snow storm came up. He ducked into a little Methodist chapel on the road, and there was hardly anybody in the church. He didn't go there to hear the Gospel, he went there to get out of the snow storm. The pastor wasn't even there that night because it was a very cold, miserable night but there was a farm worker, not an educated man, and he took the service. He stood up and said the very scripture that I have just read: "Look to Me and be saved,…" And that young teenager gave his life to Christ that night. Who was he? Well, he was one of the greatest preachers that have ever lived. His name was Charles Haddon Spurgeon. He was a Baptist. Do you know that when he was 21 years old, they built the London Tabernacle for him to preach in because the crowds were so large, up to 10,000 people at one service? A farm worker used what he had for Jesus, and Jesus did the rest.  

You and I need to do what God has called us to do. There are people who are needing rest. "Come unto Me, all of you who are weary and heavy laden…" There are many people today, go out today and tell them what Jesus means to you, because that is all it's about, nothing else. I want to tell you that Charles Haddon Spurgeon wrote 250+ books. He was an unlearned man. He spoke with a very strong English country accent and yet the crowds came in by the thousands, because one farm worker said, "I will do the service" on the Sunday night because the pastor couldn't make it.

Today, go out and tell people your story.  
Jesus bless you and goodbye.