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God Chooses the Ordinary

Mary was just a regular teenage girl in an insignificant town called Nazareth. She wasn’t wealthy, wasn’t famous, wasn’t connected to powerful people. She was ordinary. Yet God chose her to carry and give birth to the Savior of the world.

Maybe you’ve been thinking, “God doesn’t even see me. Why would He work through my life? He’ll use the pastors, the leaders, people with influence, but not me.” Or you might be convinced you’re disqualified because of your past. “If you only knew the terrible things I’ve done…” You might even think your circumstances make you unusable. “You just don’t understand my situation…”

Yet here’s what makes the Christmas story so powerful: God specializes in using ordinary, imperfect people to do extraordinary things.

When the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary, he said, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus.”

Mary’s response reveals the secret to being used by God. She called herself “the maidservant of the Lord.” This was a humble posture. God wasn’t looking for perfection in Mary. He was looking for humility and willingness. The prerequisite for the miraculous wasn’t being in the “in crowd,” having wealth, notoriety, or the perfect age. It was simply being willing.

1 Corinthians 1:27 says, “But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.”

God loves to work through people who feel inadequate or overlooked. Why? Because when He does something amazing through you, everyone knows it was Him, not you.

The Mary Miracle shows us a pattern: God speaks to us, does something new in us, and then works through us to bless those around us. You may not be birthing Jesus into the world, yet God still wants to birth dreams, visions, and hopes through you that others desperately need.

What’s limiting you? What insecurities, situations, or past failures are you defining yourself by? God’s unlimited power invites you to live beyond these restrictions. You’re not too ordinary. You’re not disqualified. You’re exactly who God can use when you have a willing, obedient heart.

Pray

Lord, I may not feel extraordinary, I feel ordinary. Yet You chose Mary, and You can choose me. I’m willing. Whatever You want to birth in me and through me, I say yes. Use my ordinary life for Your extraordinary purposes. Amen.