God’s Glory from Man’s Littleness

And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability… – Matthew 25:15

God gives to men two talents, because in them very often He displays the greatness of His grace in saving souls. You have heard a minister who was deeply read in sacred lore; his wisdom was profound, and his speech graceful. Under his preaching many were converted. Have you never heard it not quite said, but almost hinted, that much of his success was traceable to his learning and to his graceful oratory? But, on the other hand, you have met with a man, rough in his dialect, uncouth in his manners, evidently without any great literary attainments; nevertheless, God has given that man the one talent of an earnest heart; he speaks like a son of thunder; with rough, stern language, he denounces and proclaims the gospel; under him hundreds are converted. The world sneers at him. “I can see no reason for all this,” says the scholar; “it is all rubbish-cant; the man knows nothing.” The critic takes up his pen, nibs it afresh, dips it in the bitterest ink he can find, and writes a most delightful history of the man in which he goes so far as to say, not that he sees horns on his head, but almost everything but that. He is everything that is bad, and nothing that is good. He utterly denounces him. He is foolish, he is vain, he is base, he is proud, he is illiterate, he is vulgar. What says the man himself? “Even so, O Lord; now must the glory be unto Thee for ever, inasmuch as Thou hast chosen the base things of this world, and the things that are not, to bring to naught the things that are.” So it seemeth that out of the little God sometimes winneth more glory than He doth out of the great; and I doubt not that He has made some of you with little power to do good, with little influence, and with a narrow sphere, that He may, in the last great day, manifest to angels how much He can do in a little space…Surely if in the little, man can honor himself as well as in the great, the Infinite, and the Eternal, can most of all glorify Himself when He stoopeth to the littleness of mankind. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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