What God Wants Me to Be

Bill Cashman told several years ago of preaching a revival in another church. While there, a young boy took a special interest in Cashman, sitting beside him every evening. If Cashman was on the platform, that’s where the little boy sat; if on a pew, the little boy sat with him on the pew. Cashman said that the little boy was not a bother, that he just wanted to sit with him. Later, Cashman found out that the boy’s parents did not attend church.

“One evening I was sitting on the first pew,” wrote Cashman. “He came and snuggled up real close. He looked up and asked me, ‘Why are you a preacher?’

“I replied to him, ‘Because that is what God told me He wanted me to be.’ He paused a moment and then said, ‘God told me just to be a kid.'”

Cashman wrote, “His response struck me. I wonder how many of God’s people really know just what God wants them to be?”

Source: The Timothy Report, Copyright (c) 2001 Swan Lake Communications,