Unimportant people

God wasn’t attracted to you and didn’t choose you because you were big and important—the fact is, there was almost nothing to you. He did it out of sheer love, keeping the promise he made to your ancestors. God stepped in and mightily bought you back out of that world of slavery, freed you from the iron grip of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ~ Deuteronomy 7:7-8 (MSG)

Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. ~ 1 Corinthians 1:28-29 (MSG)

KEY IDEA:

God chooses to do his most important work through unimportant people.

PRAYER:

Almighty God, thank you for noticing me. Help me to stop thinking that because I am unimportant in the world that I am unimportant to you and that you are uninterested in using me. That is how the world system thinks and I need help in learning to think like you think. I'm going to stop thinking so much about status and trust that my Savior Christ Jesus knows what he is doing. Amen.