Last Sunday was one of the moving, deeply soul-satisfying days that we seem to have a lot of at Imagine Church. We all love talking about, and bragging about, our church. And we love inviting people! No one person gets the credit — because what’s happening here is way outside what any of us could do.
It’s an amazing thing to watch God take ordinary people and accomplish extraordinary things. In fact, that’s the biblical narrative, too. These are some of the people that God used in a significant way:
- When God called Abraham, Abraham said he was too old.
- When God called Moses, Moses said he wasn’t a speaker.
- When God anointed David, everyone thought he was too young (after he became king, he went outside to play).
- Gideon said he was from the wrong family.
- Esther was too comfortable. (“I’ve got somebody who does my nails; why would I want to get involved with that? It will mess up my routine!” But she got a whole book written about her, because she got involved.)
- Paul had a bad reputation.
- Nobody respected “the woman at the well” because of her past.
All these people had the same hesitancy, the same reservations you have. However, I personally believe that anybody who responds to God’s call in his or her life will receive the same promise Moses did when God said, “I will be with you.”
Whenever God urges us outside of our comfort zone, and we know that God is with us, we experience God in a different kind of way, and something different happens in us. It’s another example of how God uses ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things.
