Why use a shoe?

A recent U. S. census revealed that a majority of Americans used a shoe to drive a nail into a wall. But why would they do that? Surely no shoe designer or manufacturer whoever lived had this usage in mind. Shoes are for walking, not pounding nails. Actually the mystery deepens, as the same census also discovered 95% of those households polled had at least one or two hammers. So why the first object and not the second?

The answer of course is simple indeed—a shoe was always available, the hammer was not! So it is with the divine “nail driver.” Who does God use? That one who is available. Thus, the two greatest abilities are availability and dependability.

Most Bible students would agree that the greatest Old Testament prophet was Isaiah and the secret of his success?

“Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send me” (Isa. 6:8).

God grant us more “shoe saints” in these last days!