Beware Weak Vessels

We tend to think that salvation will come from the likely places: thrones, mountains, or kings in high places. We are not altogether wrong in this assessment. We lift our eyes unto the hills discovering that salvation comes from the Lord. Nevertheless, when salvation comes, it comes in meek Moses, left-handed Ehud, and the youngest son of Jesse who didn’t even come to the anointing, being too busy out in the field with the sheep.

Isaiah said that there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots (Isaiah 11:1). But this just after Isaiah’s prophecy that the great forests of Lebanon would be cut down. So the Branch grows out of a dried out stump much like our Savior came forth in a an uncultivated womb.

Learn from this not to despise small beginnings.

All of the rebel kings of the world, happy to have made it through the birth of the Son of David, now sit in thier banqueting halls, saying, “Are we supposed to tremble because of a little newborn?” Well, yes in fact. The widow’s mite is more than the offerings of the aristocracy. Gideon’s three hundred is more than enough actually. Five loaves, plenty. Jars of oil will be poured out only to remain full, water jugs will turn to wine jugs, and rivers will flow out of deserts.

If you try to cutoff the bread of the prophets, God will not only feed them with sourdough. He will feed them with sourdough flown to them in the beak of the raven, sourdough in the hand of a widow, in a famine, with a son, who was about to die.

When the enemy taunts you about your faith being too small, your strength to weak, and your fruit too immature. Remind him that even your Savior was tiny once, carted to Egypt by Mary and Joseph. Remind him he should be wary of weak vessels. 

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