GOD USED COMMON FOLKS FOR THE MOST SACRED, ESTEEMED ASSIGNMENT IN HUMAN HISTORY:
THE BIRTH OF HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON.
JESUS' BIRTH WAS A CONSUMMATE EXAMPLE Of The EXTRAORDINARY SWADDLED In The Ordinary.
IN GOD, In His OUTRAGEOUS LOVE, CONTINUES TO USE ORDINARY PEOPLE - YOU AND ME - TO RING IN HIS KINGDOM TO DAY. . .
GOD CHOOSES AND USES PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO BE USED TO BY HIM.
WHETHER WHAT WE HAVE SEEMS GREAT OR SMALL,
GOD MAKES IT MUCH WHEN WE LET HIM HAVE HIS WAY IN US.
He Took The Loaves Of Fish From An Ordinary Little Boy And Multiplied It To Feed Over Five Thousand People.
That's What He Wants To Do With Us.
God Himself Set The Example Of How To Love By Living And Dying In Service To The Unlovely.
His Humble Birth Into Human Form - All For The Love Of Humankind - Was Outrageous!
God's Very Ordinariness Is A Stunning Insult To The Proud, A Tender Delight To The Grateful.
Every Day We Also Call To Live Extraordinary Lives In Ordinary Ways.
-Thelma Wells
Posted By: Judith A. Birt
Monday, September 29th 2008 at 6:24PM
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