Pastor John’s Blog

You may think that you don’t have a gift that is good enough for God to use. But this is not the case. God can use anything that we are good at for his glory. Take for example a woman found in Judges 4 named Jael. She was a homemaker and she had the gift of hospitality, a gift that God would use to bring an enormous victory to Israel. You see, God sent a Canaanite king by the name of Jabin to oppress Israel for twenty years on account of Israel’s grievous sins. However, God heard the cries of His people and sent them a deliver by the name of Barak. Barak raised 10,000 men to fight with him against Sisera, the commander of King Jabin’s army. As Barak gained the upper hand in the battle Sisera ran and hid in Jael’s tent for Jael’s family was on good terms with King Jabin. Using her gift of hospitality Jael asked Sisera to lie down, and as he did she covered him with a blanket. When he asked for something to drink she offered him a glass of milk and then covered him again as he went to sleep. Judges 4:24 tells us that “…when Sisera fell asleep from exhaustion, Jael quietly crept up to him with a hammer and tent peg in her hand. Then she drove the tent peg through his temple and into the ground, and so he died.” God did not use Barak with all of his weapons and expertise in fighting to win the war. He used Jael’s gift of hospitality to win this great victory for Israel.

So today, take a hammer and a nail and…just kidding! Take whatever natural gift you have and place it before God. He has a way of using that which is mundane to bring about great things!