I was reading some Christian fiction, Inn Dependence by Angelo Castillo. One of the characters said, "God uses ordinary people to do amazing things. 2nd Corinthians 4:7 says God uses treasures found in earthen vessels so that the world will know the power is from Him and not from us. We're all flawed, and we all have problems." I thought that was lovely so I wrote it down to share on this blog.
Then, as I often do, I searched for a graphic to put with it. My Google seach was 'God uses ordinary people.' That search gave me the graphic below which also mentions 1 Corinthians 1:26-29.
"Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him."
On that same Google search was the following from Grace Fox www.gracefox.com. “Too often we fall into the mindset that says we need to be strong, brave, super-talented, or super-educated for God to use us, but Bible story after Bible story proves this is wrong. He used Noah—a landlubber—to build an ark; Moses—an 80-year-old who was still working for his father-in-law—to lead the Israelites out of captivity; Paul—a murderer—to become the greatest missionary of all times; Esther—a teenage exiled orphan—to save her entire nation from annhiliation; David—a teenage shepherd boy—to kill the giant who intimidated armies of adult men, and many other such characters to accomplish His purposes. He looks for people whose hearts are genuinely bent on pleasing Him, and then He gives them the opportunity to partner with Him and experience Him in new ways as He leads them beyond their personal comfort zone.”
Then all of it reminded me of my FAVORITE song, Nobody, by Casting Crowns. So God REALLY does use ordinary people, like me to give you this message of thoughts and ideas from different people and connected to scripture to make a lovely message. Me? I didn't do anything except follow the bunny trails and type. I love bunnys by the way.
