Ordinarilly Extraordinary

Tonight I started reading a book by John MacArthur. The title of the book is Twelve Ordinary Men. It's a book about the twelve apostles, and what we can learn from them. The first point that comes to me is that the disciples were not special people. They were tax collectors, fishers, average Joes. But God uses the weak and makes them strong through Him. That way, the credit goes to Him, not to man. The same is true of us today. That's an important point to remember.


1 Cor 1:26-29
26 For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;27 but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,28 and the base things of the world and the despised, God has chosen, the things that are not, that He might nullify the things that are,29 that no man should boast before God.(NAS)