Power of Purpose

I had the privilege of baptizing an incredible young man on Sunday.  In his story, Glen said that he found his need to get saved because of the great needs he saw all around him.  He was moved by the incredibly large amounts of unreached people groups in India and other parts of the world.  He was also moved by the lethargy (my word) he saw in America towards Jesus.  He wants to do something about reaching all these unreached all over the globe who have yet to hear the name of Jesus.  [This was the most powerful part of the story to me]  Glen said to me before walking into the baptistry, "before I could help them I needed to be helped and that is why I needed to get saved."  My take on it was that he knew the truth but it wasn't until he saw that God could give him a purpose that the truth mattered.  He had to be helped so that he could really help others.  In other words, it was the others, the unreached people of the world, that God used to reach Glen!!  How beautiful?  Truly God's ways are higher than our ways...