Ordinary Moments for an Extraordinary God

“For as heaven is higher than earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts’” Isaiah 55:8-9 Few realized the Christ would come, not in pomp or power, but in humility, frailty, and infancy. Even fewer realized the Christ would conquer, not by army, sword, or uprising, but by a cross. And these unexpected workings of God aren’t unique to the birth or death of Christ. This is how God has worked all throughout history.

He chose an obscure man named Abram from whom to build a nation, through which all the families of the earth would be blessed (Genesis 12: 1-3). He chose a shepherd boy to be a king and bring forth the line of the Messiah. He chose outcasts to be prophets. He chose a people that were small and weak to be His people (Deuteronomy 7:6-11).God’s works and ways are not always as we expect. He does not work according to worldly standards.He chose ordinary, uneducated fishermen to establish His church. He chose to conquer the world by spreading a message from person to person.

It is no wonder that Paul would say, “Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world — what is viewed as nothing — to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence,” (1 Corinthians 1:2729, CSB).

God’s works and ways are not always as we expect. He does not work according to worldly standards. He is not confined to human reason or logic. He works, not according to social precepts, but according to His own goodness and will. Ordinary Moments, So what does this mean for us? We should not ignore or neglect the small, ordinary, and simple moments of life. God doesn’t necessarily flaunt Himself in the big, grand events of the day, but He is working, and dare we say hiding, in the mundane and ordinary aspects of our lives. The big, extraordinary, and significant moments of life are not the only ones that count. It is these moments that God can take the ordinary and turn them into extraordinary!!

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