And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets…

The author of Hebrews mentions a number of Old Testament figures, but he doesn’t have time to go into great details regarding their life-stories.

What we can affirm is that they were all frail and faulty at some point. They possessed feet of clay. ‘No perfect people need apply.’

It’s been said that God has the right to use people of whom I may personally disapprove.

Samson, for example.

Would he make it onto most church leadership teams? It’s been pointed out that Samson was greatly influenced by his fleshly desires, but in the end he did trust God to deliver him, and was willing to lay down his life to overcome the enemy. However, as Wiersbe rightly says, we must not think we can live double lives and still expect the blessing of God.

However, the fact that God uses ‘frail children of dust, and feeble as frail’, should lift our spirits and inject iron into our souls. We must not be presumptuous, but our sins and failings and weaknesses do not necessarily disqualify us from valiant service in the ranks of God’s mighty army.

PRAYER: Merciful God, I am so sorry for what I am not. I pray that by your grace you will make me everything you want me to be, and use me as you will. Lord increase my faith.