When he talks his face shines, and his speech is like
honey for sweetness, and like bullets fired from a gun for power.
He is one of the weak and foolish ones God has chosen to confound
the wise and mighty (1 Cor. i. 27).
If God calls a man, He will so corroborate the call in some way,
that men may know that there is a prophet among them. It will be
with him as it was with Samuel. "And Samuel grew, and the Lord
was with him, and did let none of His words fall to the ground.
And all Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, knew that Samuel was
established to be a prophet of the Lord" (1 Samuel iii. 19, 20).
If the man himself is uncertain about the call, God will deal
patiently with him, as He did with Gideon, to make him certain.
His fleece will be wet with dew when the earth is dry, or dry
when the earth is wet; or he will hear of some tumbling barley
cake smiting the tents of Midian, that will strengthen his faith,
and make him to know that God is with him (Judges vi. 36-40;
vii. 9-15).
If the door is shut and difficulties hedge the way, God will go
before the man He calls, and open the door and sweep away the
difficulties (Isaiah xlv. 2, 3).
If others think the man so ignorant and unfit that they doubt his
call, God will give him such grace or such power to win souls
that they shall have to acknowledge that God has chosen him. It
was in this way that God made a whole National Headquarters, from
the Commissioner downwards, to know that He had chosen the
elevator boy for His work.
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