Session 2: Sunday March 13
You are a masterpiece and your willingness to be available to be used by God pleases Him. Monet’s masterpiece isn’t a masterpiece because of the location. The location is ordinary.
If there is a temptation that a lot of us fall into, it is that we see life and the circumstances in our lives as something ordinary. We don’t see the beauty. We don’t see the potential. Most of us feel like our life is ordinary or plain. Maybe you believe that God may have made a masterpiece out of you personally, but what about your circumstances?
Life just seems ordinary.
TRUTH
We look at our life and circumstances and wonder how anything extraordinary could come from it.
Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” “Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked (John 1:45-46 NIV).
It is the question we ask ourselves, whether consciously or subconsciously, when we take a look at our everyday lives: “Can anything good come from where I am? This is the most unlikely place for God to show up.” Where we come from—the ordinariness of our daily lives, what makes up day-in and day-out life for us—doesn’t determine whether or not God can do something extraordinary in us. And whether or not we really believe this determines how we will respond to some of the biggest opportunities of our lives and see significant things happen in and around us. Do you wonder if anything good could from your situation?
It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for signs from heaven. And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek human wisdom. So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it’s all nonsense. But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest human plans, and God’s weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength (1 Corinthians 1:22-25 NLT).
What may seem unlikely and improbable to us may be just the right kind of place for God to work. We need to get rid of our preconceived notions and open our minds to what God just might want to do in and through our circumstances.
God wants to use unlikely people in unlikely places to do something more.
We see things differently than God does. God sees potential where you may not and where the world may not. Jesus works through the unlikeliest places and circumstances.