Your Remarkable

You know I love words! A particular word appeared on Mister Bill's recent medical report and ... well, it just made me laugh out-loud! The report described the result as "unremarkable." In other words, the results "lacked distinction, ordinary." Perhaps many of us are waiting on God to call us to something [by our own standards] significant, extraordinary ... remarkable, and it seems we've been waiting a very long time! This has left us ... here's a good word - baffled (perplexed, bewildered). This would rightly describe many Bible heroes: for example, "Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which translated in Greek is called Dorcas); this woman was abounding with deeds of kindness and charity which she continually did" (Acts 9:36, NASB). We learn she was a seamstress, and her "deeds of kindness" involved making tunics and garments for people (Acts 9:39, NASB). Do not miss the greatest detail of her story: she was a "disciple" - a follower of Jesus. Throughout history, God has used simple, otherwise ordinary, people to accomplish His purposes. "A Christian is one who trusts the wits and wisdom of God. If instead we trust our own wits and wisdom, if we go off pursuing our own ends, we will destroy the simplicity and the leisureliness which ought to characterize our lives as children of God." (Oswald Chambers). Do you, like me, wonder how many opportunities we've missed by relying on my own "wits and wisdom." Jesus put it like this: "One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much" (Luke 16:10). How foolish we are to consider any obedience to God as insignificant or unremarkable! God uses the small to accomplish the great. Be sure you don't t miss ... your remarkable!