1 Corinthians 1:27
God's choice is sometimes not the conventional choice of man. He chose a betrothed virgin to carry His Son in her womb for nine months. This sparked enough controversy that even caused Joseph, her partner to consider leaving her.
In looking for a mouth piece, someone to send to represent Him before a callous, impatient King, God's choice was Moses, a terrible stammerer.
God wanting to bring down a mightily built wall, asked His people to walk around it for seven days, and shout on the final day. I could have stood by the wall of Berlin, shouting forever, and that would definitely not have brought it down.
When God sent His Son to the Earth, one would have thought He would be born with a silver spoon in His mouth, but contrarily, He was born in a stable.
We cannot fathom God. He sometimes works contrary to man's expectation. In 2 Kings 5, Naaman, a respected Commander of the Syrian Army came to Israel to be healed of leprosy. Naaman expected the man of God to welcome him pleasantly and then pray for him to be cleansed. Instead he was disappointedly met by a servant of the man of God who asked him to go and wash himself seven times in the Jordan. This was Naaman's response - But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage. 2 Kings 5: 11- 12
Naaman was angry because he had in mind a conventional way that God ought to work. He had put God in a box, and thought he could predict Him. But God is unpredictable. Naaman knew of more prestigious rivers where he could have washed in - the River of Damascus , and its ilk. But this was not so, God chose the Jordan. God chooses that which man looks down upon. He is able to use defects to His advantage. When Naaman finally obeyed the man of God, he was cleansed of his leprosy.
It is time for us to put aside our conventional methods of serving God, and our perceived thoughts of how God ought to move, and simply trust Him.
Make room in your heart and mind for God's unconventional ways. Become like a child who simply trusts. When Naaman finally trusted the words of the man of God, he got his healing. When the Virgin trusted the words of God from His Angel, she miraculously conceived the Saviour of the World. It took simple trust for the Israelites to walk round the walls of Jericho, appearing like aimless people and shouting like a demented crew. However when they obeyed the command of the Lord, they conquered Jericho and took possession of their promised land.
Matthew 18: 1-4
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
He called a little child and had him stand among them. And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
The greatest in God's Kingdom has the heart of a child - simply trusting!
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