Our sermon this Sunday was called “Two Blind Men”. In Acts 9:1-18, we will see the
radical conversion of a Christ-hating Pharisee named Saul of Tarsus. The conversion is so stunning that Ananias a relatively anonymous Christ-loving disciple at Damascus has trouble getting his head around it. Yet, Christ chose Ananias to be the very instrument he wanted to bring Saul to Christ and to commission Saul for the mission of the gospel.
Here is something that we perpetually need to get our heads and hearts around:
Unlikely people are used by Christ to save unlikely people and to set them on
mission for the gospel. Christ purposely chooses the nobodies of this world to
advance the kingdom of His Son.
1 Corinthians 1:27-29 reveals how this shaped Paul’s understanding of how God does his mission: “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; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human might boast in the presence of God.”
Do you actually believe this? Do you believe that Christ uses weak and broken people and nobodies to advance his eternal kingdom? Does it excite you? Does it make you expect the unexpected to happen?
Let's watch God work His weird and wonderful way of salvation to the surprise of two completely unsuspecting men. May it cause us to rejoice in God’s ways and to begin to expect God to do the unexpected in and through our lives. God is so good!
