“For consider your calling,
brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many
mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to
shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the
things which are strong” (I. Cor. 1:26-27).
Hey Gang: The fourth and final common denominator – God uses
normal, everyday people who have gone through the wilderness, to implement and
accomplish His plan. People who have
been tested by fire and not wavered in their faith and trust in God. People who were willing to say, “Here Lord,
send me.”
Remember, after the feeding of the 5000 Jesus immediately
sent the disciples out into the Sea, where they encountered raging storms. Why?
They had failed the test in the feeding of the 5000 when Jesus said,
“You feed them!” Was that idle
talk? Does not the Bible say that Jesus had already developed a plan to feed the
troops?
But there was a far greater lesson to be learned by the
disciples that day of training. Do you
think there was any doubt in the disciple’s minds that they were in danger of
visiting Davie’s Locker? Some were
fisherman and knew the violence of the Sea of Galilee and, I suspect, they were
resolved that their life on earth was over.
But Jesus loved them and came to them at the exact right
time- the darkest hour- just when any chance of survival was at the point of
impossible. One might say that the
disciples were in finishing school, that frightening night. And what was the lesson of the experience? Notice
Matthews words, “And those who were in
the boat worshiped Him, saying, You are certainly God’s Son!” (Matt.
14:33). Lesson learned! What lesson? “Surely
you are the Son of the living God!”
Moses, did he jump up and down when he visited the burning
bush and encountered Jehovah God and learned what God had in mind for him? I sense he was in a mesmerized state at that
moment - a burning bush that did not turn to ashes! A voice out of the cloud
saying, “I have a chore I want you to do for me for me Moses.”
Keep in mind, he had just spent forty years tending sheep,
which did not require a PhD in animal husbandry. Yes, he was trained in the courts of the Pharaoh
and graduated with honors, but forty years of talking to sheep, I would suggest
might, have dulled his intellect. The
point, he was a not the head of his class, when God reached down and said,
“I’ll take that one!
O, yes, one last requirement - you must have faith – the
common denominator in Hebrews eleven is faith. Faith is the anchor to our walk with the
Lord. “Without faith it is impossible to
please God and to be used by Him. (Hebrews 11).
It was not the marching, the trumpet blast, or the yelling of the
marchers that brought the walls of Jericho down, it was faith!
Finally, my dear family and friends, God has a desire to use
you! You might feel you have nothing to
offer, that I am nothing – but that is precisely the kind of person God is
looking for. He takes broken vessels and
crushes them and molds them into the image of His Son Jesus!
So, one last time, say it with me, “I am normal; God likes
me; God is for me; God can use me. Now show up for your marching orders!.
Blessings,
Gramps
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