Hope
for We Ordinary Types
I do
a lot of thinking about Christmas during
Consider
this …
The
angels appeared to shepherds. Shepherds
were low class. They lived with
sheep. They smelled bad, they ate rather
poorly. They were poor, mostly. And yet they got a special invitation to the
birth of Christ.
Mary
was, by some accounts a 14-year-old nobody.
She wasn’t the star in her school. She wasn’t great at athletics, or a
cheerleader, as far as we know. She didn’t
do anything noteworthy to our knowledge.
And she was the key player in this whole drama that unfolds this time of
year. She gave birth to God’s son. An ordinary young woman was selected to be
the birth mother for Heaven’s greatest gift.
How
about that. Ordinary people in ordinary
times, dressed in ordinary ways, doing life in mundane, ordinary fashion, and
they were partakers in the most amazing story that God could craft.
I’m
ordinary. I’m a few pounds over-weight. I had open-heart surgery a year ago, I move
slower now, I can sing but I’m not the best singer on the block. And yet, in my years of living, God has used
me a few times to do his bidding. I’ve
presented a few musicals that touched some people. I’ve written a few blogs that some
individuals have benefited from. I’ve
given some money to a few needy individuals and it helped meet an immediate
need.
I’m
nobody. Just an ordinary guy, and yet,
God seems to say to me, “You, the bald one, who walks slower now. YOU, yes you.
I can use you. You are just what I
need for this job over here.”
I
think God is saying that to you too.
This post is typically full of ways to be a better person, or ways to
help people with whom you work. Well,
today, the best way we can do all that is to become a tool, a mouthpiece in God’s
hands and see what He can do through you and me. He has already proven a propensity for using
the unknown, the unskilled, the untrained and the lesser sorts.
Today,
He is inviting us to partner with Him in a continuing saga of hope for all
mankind.
If
the Christmas message is anything, it definitely is a message that is
ALL ABOUT
PEOPLE!
This is what is
on my mind today.
P Michael
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