God’s Nobody

Author:
Woodrow Kroll, Tony Beckett
Source: Faith Walk
Scripture Reference Revelation
6 Amos
1-3

God’s
Nobody

Amos 1–3, Revelation 6
Key Verse: Amos 1:1

My hometown had only one building, which contained the train station, general
store, gas station and post office. I used to say that it was “just five miles
south of resume speed.” There’s something about coming from a small town that
makes you feel insignificant.

I’m sure Amos was like that. He came from the tiny village of Tekoa. If you
rode your donkey south out of Jerusalem you soon came to Bethlehem. If you rode
six miles further, you came to Tekoa. And if you rode even further you came to
nothing. Tekoa was a frontier town, on the edge of the harsh Judean wilderness.

There, Amos was a shepherd. He was not the mayor of the town; he was a sheep
breeder. He was a nobody.

Still, God came to this nobody and called him to become His servant and
spokesman. (Read Amos 7:14–15.) Amos wasn’t eloquent nor was he educated. But he
was available and he wholly obeyed the Lord. Eleven times in his tiny book Amos
says, “Thus says the LORD . . . ”

Maybe God has something special for you to do too. It doesn’t matter what you
are now; it only matters what He intends to make of you. Be available. Be clean.
Be ready. You may be His next Amos.

“God, make me the kind of person who is clean and pure before You, so that
if You have some special task for me to do, I will be ready, willing and able to
do it.”

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