God Uses People

 

 

 

I have often heard

“I have no help but God”

But is that really true?

Think before you applaud.

 

“God came through for me”

But how did God do this?

In so many ways, they say,

And then supply a list.

 

“Were it not for God

To whom would I have turned?”

Think again, I advise,

There’s much you can learn.

 

“God sent me the money

To pay an important bill,

And to think of how He did it

Really gives me a thrill.

 

I hadn’t a clue concerning

How the money would come

But in God I put my trust

And Presto! It was done.”

 

 

 

But, did it fall from the sky

Like manna in Bible days?

Certainly not, my funny friend,

Is what you’d likely say.

 

God does not print money

He uses what is in print,

All the more reason, my friend

Why I am begging you to think.

 

“I could find help nowhere

So, as always, I turned to God,

He provided the help I needed:

It was surely not King Fraud.”

 

When people cannot help us

It’s God to whom we turn

But is this really the lesson

This poem wants us to learn?

 

Look again, I beg you,

And its lesson you will learn,

“God uses people!”

It’s people to whom God turns.

 

 

It’s always somebody He uses

To help us in our trouble,

Think back again and you’ll see

God uses people.

 

The one who gave the money,

Or the one who paid the bill,

The one who brought the meal

Or the one that vacancy filled.

 

A helping hand that was given

Or a piece of needed advice,

A timely word of soothing comfort

That in a difficult time sufficed.

 

A lift to the supermarket

And a ride back home again,

An hour or too spent in company

As you deal with severe pain.

 

That shoulder you cried upon

A cheery good morning greeting,

Yes! God uses people

Is certainly worth repeating.

 

So, whenever God responds,

It’s people that He uses,

In the many and varying ways

It is people God chooses.

 

Stewart Russell © July 23, 2021