A welcome in to a word of encouragement from your friends at Our Daily Bread.

The reading for today titled Use Me was written by Arthur Jackson.

James Morris was once described as an illiterate but warm-hearted layman.

But God used him to draw Augustus Top Lady to saving faith in Jesus Christ.

Top Lady, the 18th century author of the timeless hymn, Rock of Ages, described hearing Morris preach.

Strange that I should be brought nigh unto God, amidst a handful of God's people met together

in a barn, and under the ministry of one who could hardly spell his name.

Surely this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous.

Indeed, God does marvelous things in unlikely places, and through those we may rank as

unqualified or ordinary.

In 1st Corinthians 1, Paul reminded believers in Jesus that they were an

unimpressive lot. Not many of you were wise by human standards. Not many were influential.

Not many were of noble birth. Though the Corinthian believers were quite ordinary,

by God's grace they weren't lacking in giftedness and usefulness,

and God, who knows how to put boasters in their place, was at work among them and through them.

Do you see yourself as plain, ordinary, or even less than?

Don't fret.

If you have Jesus and are willing to be used by him, you have enough.

May your heart's prayer be.

God, use me.

Today's our daily bread devotional scripture reading is from the writings of Paul in 1 Corinthians chapter 1, 26 through 31.

Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called.

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