Daily Discipleship Guide for 17-MAR-2010
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
In his sixteenth year, Patrick was carried off into captivity by Irish marauders and was sold as a slave to a chieftain in a territory of the present county of Antrim in Ireland, where for six years he tended his matster’s flocks. During his captivity while tending the flocks he prayed many times in the day: “the love of God,”, he added, “and His fear increased in me more and more, and the faith grew in me, and the spirit was roused, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers….”In the six years of Patrick's captivity he acquired a perfect knowledge of the Celtic language in which he would one day announce the good news of Redemption. His master, Milchu, was a druidical high priest, and so Patrick became familiar with all the details of Druidism from whose bondage he was destined to liberate the Irish race.
Any one of us can be like St. Patrick. All he did was submit himself and his circumstance to God. God then redeemed this circumstance - took it and made it useful for God's kingdom. Patrick allowed God to transform his disgrace.What disgrace have you suffered?Have you submitted it to God?Ask God to use it and you for the kingdom - how might God trade in those negative circumstances in your life for something God can use to save a person or a nation?