Many Christian lives are, so far as human eye can see, barren and unfruitful. May it not well be largely because we are saying within ourselves that if only we had more time or money, or capacity, or gift, we would do great things for God, while God is only asking that what we have be brought to Him to multiply?

A man once told Mr. Moody that he was asking God for money to care for five thousand orphans. Mr. Moody said: "Friend, begin with one; you could take care of one, could you not? Well, find that one, and turn your home into an orphanage."

It is the old story of Moses protesting his lack of eloquence while all the time he held in his hand the old shepherd's crook which, cast down before God and than taken up again at God's command, became that "rod of God" with which Israel was delivered.

—C.I. Scofield