Trembling Needles & Shuddering Demons

Being a modern man with a taste for popular music, I enjoy hearing the latest sounds reverberating around my home. Unfortunately, my gramophone was not working properly, so music was in short supply. Despite winding it up and directing the horn to a suitable direction, no sound would come. Why? It had no needle. More were duly ordered from the supplier and they arrived in a couple of days; ah, the joys of technological advancement! The little needle was fitted (which looks more like a nail than the more finely crafted apparatus of the later record players) and the sound duly carried through the piping and out of the horn. From something so little to something so loud, music once more filled the room.

The Gospel of Grace (the glorious, powerful, supernatural plan of redemption, forged in the deepest, unsearchable counsels of the Triune God before the foundation of the universe) which causes archangels to marvel and demons to shudder, is usually communicated to humans by the most ordinary means. Printed books, casual conversations, little tracts, online blogs, ineloquent preachers, Christmas carols, chapel noticeboards etc, are the simple and unimpressive methods by which its truths are shared and disseminated. Do not judge the message by the messenger, and neither dismiss its importance by the trembling little needle by which its syllables are magnified.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty...1 Corinthians 1:27, NKJV