But God Owns Him Abundantly

I’m working through Michael Haykin’s excellent work on John Sutcliff, One Heart and One Soul. In that book he mentions a bit of a revival that sprung up at Sheephead. Here are the words of John Ryland on the instrument of that revival:

You ask if I have heard of a revival of Sheepshead—I have seen it. The instrument is Mr Guy…the plainest rough-hewed preacher you ever saw or heard…3 sabbaths back 24 gave in their experience there, the Church meeting lasted from 4 in the afternoon till 12 at night. The devil roars woefully there. Guy never spares him in the pulpit and he never spares Guy out of it—the poor man is often distressed almost to death about the greatness of the work, and generally goes up the pulpit stairs in chains, but God owns him abundantly…(83)

I love that last phrase, “God owns him abundantly”. Whether God uses me in a revival or not is up to Him. But I pray that at the end of my days it can be said of me, “God owns him abundantly”.