God Uses Ordinary Things: Shepherds

Consider the mighty ways in which God used a dead
stick of wood. “God so used a stick of wood” can be a
banner cry for each of us. Though we are limited and
weak in talent, physical energy, and psychological
strength, we are not less than a stick of wood. But as the
rod of Moses had to become the rod of God, so that
which is me must become the me of God. Then I can
become useful in God's hands. The Scripture
emphasizes that much can come from little if the little is
truly consecrated to God. There are no little people and
no big people in the true spiritual sense, but only
consecrated and unconsecrated people.
—Francis Schaeffer