Notes of Faith September 18, 2025
Tapestry of Usefulness
So please, my lord, let me stay here as a slave instead of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.
Genesis 44:33, NLT
Violet Liddle felt God calling her to missions, yet the doors didn’t open. Instead she became a maid. She worked for the likes of George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill, living out her Christian testimony. When she later worked for revival groups in England, she said, “It must seem as though my life has been made up of lots of bits and pieces… but I can see how all the different experiences have added up and prepared me for what was to come next.”
That was true for Joseph, wasn’t it? All his experiences prepared him for his role as prime minister. But the same was also true for his brother Judah, who had sold Joseph into slavery. Years later, he was broken over his sin and offered himself as a prisoner. God used it to unite his family.
Everything that happens to us—even our failures and confessed sins—will somehow work for God in His timing. Thank the Lord for all your experiences, which He weaves into a tapestry of usefulness.
God leads His children step by step. I knew that was true.
Violet Liddle
John 13:7
Jesus answered and said to him, "What I do you do not realize now, but you will understand hereafter."
So much that happens to us we do not understand at the time, but nothing takes God by surprise!
Rom 8:28-30
28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
I could not share just verse 28…for the end of what God is doing in you and in me is to bring us to glory…His glory, the glory He places within us for all eternity. This is cause for shouting praise, singing and dancing, giving thanks and worshipping the God of all glory!
Pastor Dale