Thirty-fourth Mountain Peak

"A tittle one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time." Isaiah 60:22

IT DOES NOT mater how weak and poor we are physically or intellectually, we can become spiritually strong in heaven. In one meeting, there was one boy very stupid, always giggling, and with hardly the understanding of a normal child, yet he was coming to the meetings regularly, and in every meeting he would raise his hand. God's Word truly entered that boy's heart. His father had a liquor shop and was earning good money. One day the boy went home and began to pack his things, so his mother asked him where he was going. He replied: "God has come into my heart and I don't want to stay in this wicked home. Because you are making liquor to get money, 1 would rather live in the street than in this wicked home". Then the mother said: "It is for you we are earning the money. We don't want the money for ourselves. We shall die very soon and all the money will be yours". The boy said: "I don't want it". Then the mother told the father and he began to beg his son to stay. He refused at first. but finally told them that he would stay, only if they would throw away the barrels of liquor. The father said "What a waste! But we won't do this, we will sell it. But give us time and we shall go to a new house". The The boy said: "These things are sinful. The liquor must be thrown away. Why ruin others by selling it. Unless you throw it away 1 won't stay" He was so strong, and being the only .son whom they loved so much, the father threw the barrels of liquor away, till it was flowing like a river. Then there was revival in their heart. That is how God can use even foolish people. The Lord may chastise or rebuke us, but He can use us, however foolish we may be. He does not always use great men or educated men, but often through even the foolish and the weak He does great things (1 Cor. 1:31). It is through the despised vessel that He turns the world upside down.

We had a meeting in a certain place in North India many years ago. There was a boarding school for girls nearby and the girls were attending the meetings. But I told the lady incharge that little girls cannot sit too long in meetings that go on for five to six hours, so the children were sent out. After the meeting the old lady, Mrs. Lal, said: "Give me a few minutes, I want to say a few words. 1 am the Head Mistress of the school, and I went around to the hostel for a few minutes to see whether things were all going on well. But to my surprise I saw all the small children from the age of 13 to 14 having a prayer meeting. They were on their knees and praying with tears one by one: "Lord, forgive me; I am a great sinner," I asked them why they were weeping and they said: 'Because of sin'. You can imagine the sins little children can do—robbing powder and sweets or telling lies. One by one they were born again at that young age. and Sister Lal testified how she came to the meeting and said to the Lord: "Lord, I am a Head Mistress, and a graduate, and yet not born again. These small children are far better than I. I also want to be born again." And she was born again and testified in the meeting, and one by one her whole staff were also born again. The school was closed and we had day and night prayer-meetings and Bible studies. It began with the simple faith of children. That is God's promise. It is a wonderful mountain peak. With all our handicaps and folly the Lord can make us vessels of glory provided we are willing to be possesed by Him, and willing to be used by Him and thus we can enjoy great blessing.