Technically, I’m not sitting on my back porch this afternoon. I’m sitting at work, outside under the tin roof of our break area. So I guess this one still counts as a Thought Under the Tin Roof.

I was listening to some preaching when the preacher mentioned how Paul discipled Timothy during their travels together.

That thought led me to reach for the little pocket New Testament I carry with me. I turned to 1 Timothy 1 and read verses 12–17, Paul’s testimony.
What a beautiful testimony.
Paul wasn’t glorifying himself. He was glorifying the One who saved him.
He remembered who he had been, what he had done, and yet he also remembered what Christ had done for him. The Lord didn’t look at Paul and see a man who was too far gone to use. He showed mercy. He showed grace. He saved him, changed him, and then used him to proclaim the very Gospel he had once fought against.
As I sat there reading those verses, I couldn’t help but think about my own testimony.
I wrote my testimony down a few months ago, and I’ve thought about it many times since. I’m reminded that God can take a soul that seems completely lost, broken, or too far gone and transform that life into something that brings glory to Him.
Now, I’m not saying I’m going to become some great soul winner like Paul.

I’m simply grateful that the Lord has chosen to use me in some small way to share His Word.
If God allows something I write, something I say, or something Porch Believers does to reach someone who needs Jesus Christ, then it is worth every bit of work.
Maybe it reaches one person.
Maybe that person shares Christ with another.
Maybe that person reaches a family member.
Maybe someone who seemed completely lost finds salvation through Jesus Christ.
I don’t know what God will do with the little things we place in His hands.
But I know this:
It doesn’t have to be big to be worth doing.
If one soul comes to Christ through this ministry, that is one soul that has heard the Gospel. One soul that has been pointed toward Jesus. One soul that has been given the opportunity to hear the Good News.
And that is worth working for.
Paul ends this portion of his testimony by pointing everything back to Christ:

“Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
1 Timothy 1:17 (KJV)

That’s where my testimony belongs, too.
Not with me.
Not with Porch Believers.
Not with anything I write.
It belongs with Jesus Christ.

So this afternoon, sitting underneath a tin roof at work, I simply want to say:
Thank You, God, for using me.
Also thank you, reader, for taking the time to read these thoughts and for sharing them with someone else when you feel led.
I don’t know how many people will ever read what I write.
I don’t know how many lives Porch Believers will ever touch.
But I know that one soul matters.
And if God allows this little ministry to point even one soul toward Jesus Christ, then every word, every study, every early morning, every late night, and every hour spent working on it will have been worth it.
Because one soul is worth working for.

Until the rain falls again…

Grace and peace,
A Porch Believer