Nothing Special
God specializes in nothing special. That which is ordinary is His specialty. You might think God would specialize in the extraordinary and deal only with superiority. After all, the Bible tells us that God “is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think.
Yes, He is an omnipotent God with unimaginable power and ability. He is the God who spoke the universe into existence and directed light to come from darkness. He is superior to all things because He is The Maker of all things. He is the grand and glorious God who specializes in nothing special.
Think about the ordinary things that God has used throughout history. For example, look at God’s greatest treasure, mankind. God formed man from a handful of ordinary dirt. Then, He told Moses to use a simple staff to divide the Red Sea. Later, a plain Shepherd boy named David would use an ordinary rock to kill a loudmouth giant.
Then Jesus, our Savior, was born in a cow shed, and His first bed was a feed trough. Jesus, the Son of God, called twelve ordinary fishermen. They would saturate the world with an extraordinary Gospel. You see, God really does specialize in nothing special.
So, what does all this mean to us? Well, it is time to stop waiting on the doctors of divinity and professors of preaching to deliver revival. And don’t expect the mega-churches and TV preachers to bring about a great awakening.
The Bible tells us, “That not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.” Because “God gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases their strength.” You see, He is a God Who specializes in using nothing special
Here lies the strength of God. He can use stone cutters and carpenters to hammer out Satan’s influence. He will employ truck drivers and mailmen to deliver the gospel. He will engage farmers and sewing machine operators to sow seeds of hope. Meanwhile, crane operators and Godly parents are raising a new generation of evangelists.
You see, it does not matter who you are. It does not matter where you are or what you are doing. God has a special calling for you. Maybe you feel you are nothing special. Still, you are just what God wants. He specializes in using nothing special for His glory.
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. “I Corinthians 1:26-28”
“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:4-10 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/eph.2.4-9.NKJV
Douglas Huff
From Down Where the Pavement Ends
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