As part of my devotions I've been reading a series of short biographies of great preachers and teachers of the previous two centuries.  Today's reading was about two fellows who lived the end of the 1800's and into the first half of the 1900's.  Both fellows made similar contributions, founding Bible colleges and seminaries along with writing massive volumes on the interpretation of Scripture.

And yet famously, they couldn't have been more dissimilar.   

Theologically they were miles apart, and yet both men would have been considered "conservative."  How they went about their ministries was also completely different.

It reminds me that God can use anyone, that He has created each of us for a purpose.  Embracing our uniqueness in Christ and fulfilling what He has called you and I to do is like a stained glass window with it's myraid of colors.  You might be a rectangular piece that is blue in color; I may be a triangle of burnt orange.  And yet each piece of glass fits together to make something quite beautiful.  That's a portrait of the body of Christ, of which He is the artist.  All the pieces different; and yet in the picture that our Lord creates He moves us together to make something quite awesome and breathtaking.

Understanding His awesome love for us, the view of all those pieces fitting together must bring Him laughter...