The hoses in our garden are used in different ways at different times. Sometimes our contractor’s hoses are connected to drip hoses to distribute water to individual tomato plants, eggplants, and cucurbits. Sometimes they are connected to oscillating overhead sprinklers to water multiple beds of crops like beets, turnips, bok shoy, and daikon radishes. The same is true, in a different way, with our drip hoses. One year a given length is used to irrigate cucurbits, and the next it is watering tomatoes and eggplants.
Both types of hoses have periods of time when they are not being used at all. Maybe it’s just a rainy patch, when we don’t need to irrigate. Or maybe they have been drained, coiled, and stored for the winter. They still have value to us, but the circumstances are not right for their use for at those times.
We see something like that in the way God uses His servants. He gives them different tasks, serving different kinds of folks in different ways at different times. And like our hoses, they are not in use all the time; there are times when God isn’t actively using them, but they still have great value to Him.
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