4 Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock – Isaiah 26:4
There is a celebration of the ordinary in the Bible. Always the storyteller, Jesus seems to use every item in His disposal to teach spiritual lessons. Parables of soil, mustard seeds, and lost coins are some of the demonstrations of this. Of course great storytellers do this masterfully, use the ordinary to prove the extraordinary, but there is also a spiritual lesson in all of this. Our faith is the great equalizer. Everyone, regardless of status, wealth, or any man made qualification, is a whisper’s distance from grace.
This proves a gritty, every day hope for us.
If Jesus so readily ignored the classifications of man, then He must have different qualifications. His economy must run differently than ours and we are the ones who need to catch up to His standard. He speaks much on rocks. Rocks. Talk about the most trivialized and ignored item in existence. Yet, He assigns a new identity as an everlasting display of God’s presence. Many rocks never move. I have a smaller decorative boulder at the end of my driveway that I suspect will be there long past my final day on this planet.
Jesus created the plain and the extraordinary alike. Their value doesn’t depend on the worth we assign it, but all plays into a type of orchestra of grace. A rock and a coin can all teach us something of a larger creator. If we are to expand this view out, it means that you, with all your flaws and frustrations, serve a role in His Kingdom. You demonstrate a grace to those around you. You speak to the respected and disregarded in this life. Let your presence be known. Be a reflection of grace today.
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