Having a bummer-type day, are you?
The kids won't mind, the books won't balance, and now you discover the dinner with the boss is in two hours when you thought it was scheduled for next week?
Whether health, finance, attitude, or relationship, a crimp in one or more can leave us feeling as if we are nothing; no good. Why should be bother? We are proven messes.
And then God.
God comes along and asks us to help Him! He seeks us! God asks us for permission to rent out our space for His use! God does!
Just when we had about convinced ourselves of personal uselessness and nothingness, God gives us a call.
A God whom we couldn't have thought up on our own has turned to us, reached to us, is revealed to be someone quite other than the God we would have if God were merely a figment of our imagination--God is a Jew from Nazareth who lived briefly, died violently, and rose unexpectedly. This God scared us to death but also thrilled us to life, perceives author William Willimon in his book, Why Jesus?
Just how significant can you be? The unexplainable, immeasureable, mysterious true God tapped you personally seeking permission to live from your shell. That's how significant.
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