God’s Ordinary Faithfulness

But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;”

1 Corinthians 1:27

God chooses what is foolish. (Read there, “God uses you and me.”) God chooses what is weak. (Read there, “God uses you and me.”) It’s amazing how God, in His ordinary faithfulness, uses weak and foolish people like you and me. We are often dreaming of accomplishing big and important things for God, but I’ve seen that God displays His faithfulness most often in the everyday, mundane obediences of the “weak” and “foolish” Christian.

I got a text message a few years back from someone saying that the time my family spent with them changed the trajectory of their ministry. We had this person over for one supper, where we listened and talked about the Lord. One supper. I heard of a person deeply affected by the simple hospitality of a family during the one year they lived in the same town. One year. My parents had me memorizing Scripture from as early as I can remember. The Lord used this ordinary obedience to convict me of my sin and save my soul. My wife has been in gospel-preaching, bible-teaching churches her whole life. In simple church attendance, across 8 states, in 8-10 churches, my wife heard the bible preached over and over again, causing her to grow and mature in Christ. Each of these examples is God displaying His ordinary faithfulness to accomplish His purposes. These are not sun-stopping displays of faithfulness (Josh 10:13), or ground-shaking moments of power (Acts 16:26), but they are just as powerful to remind us that God uses the weak and foolish in ordinary ways to display His amazing faithfulness.

May God have mercy on us, the weak and foolish, to accomplish His will. May He use our ordinary obedience to accomplish the extraordinary. Let us be amazed that God uses even us to bring about His purposes, and let us worship God for His normal, ordinary, everyday faithfulness.

©Jacob Crouch 2022, 2024