Unnoticed moves of God.
How would you define a ‘move of God’, moments in history where you can see God’s fingerprints in our lives?
Parting of the Red Sea.
Naaman being healed.
Feeding of the five thousand.
Raising of Lazarus from the dead.
Yeah, all of these are moves of God, but they are all miraculous moves of God; what about the ordinary moves of God? I can hear you thinking, ‘Surely there can’t be any ordinary moves of God; God is extra-ordinary!’ Yes He is extra-ordinary but sometimes he works out His [extra-ordinary] plans in our ordinary.
Check this out:
Boaz married Ruth. She became his wife. Boaz slept with her. By God's gracious gift she conceived and had a son. (Ruth 4:13 MSG)
Nothing miraculous there, and yet this is a move of God.
Here we read about God working out salvation in the ordinary. Ruth married Boaz and they decided to have a family. That’s it. Nothing earth shattering or history shaking; it sounds like the decisions that we make (or see being made) every day. But the ordinariness of this story was key to our salvation. Because Ruth and Boaz chose to have children David, the great King of Israel, was born and through David’s line Christ was born. And because Christ was born we can now be re-born as we receive the salvation that he offers us through the cross and the empty grave.
Ruth and Boaz had no concept of this; they just decided to live their lives, but in their lives was God.
You may struggle to notice the significance of your life in work, in your town or even your church. Nothing miraculous has happened in your life and so does this mean that God is not present or active? After all surely you would notice. Ruth and Boaz never noticed God at work in their lives on this occasion; it was just an ordinary everyday decision. Even in the ordinariness of your life God is at work, and who knows what story of salvation he will write in someone’s life because of ordinary decisions you make today.
Rejoice because God is the God of the ordinary as well as the miraculous, but even the ordinary is extra-ordinary in His presence.
Parting of the Red Sea.
Naaman being healed.
Feeding of the five thousand.
Raising of Lazarus from the dead.
Yeah, all of these are moves of God, but they are all miraculous moves of God; what about the ordinary moves of God? I can hear you thinking, ‘Surely there can’t be any ordinary moves of God; God is extra-ordinary!’ Yes He is extra-ordinary but sometimes he works out His [extra-ordinary] plans in our ordinary.
Check this out:
Boaz married Ruth. She became his wife. Boaz slept with her. By God's gracious gift she conceived and had a son. (Ruth 4:13 MSG)
Nothing miraculous there, and yet this is a move of God.
Here we read about God working out salvation in the ordinary. Ruth married Boaz and they decided to have a family. That’s it. Nothing earth shattering or history shaking; it sounds like the decisions that we make (or see being made) every day. But the ordinariness of this story was key to our salvation. Because Ruth and Boaz chose to have children David, the great King of Israel, was born and through David’s line Christ was born. And because Christ was born we can now be re-born as we receive the salvation that he offers us through the cross and the empty grave.
Ruth and Boaz had no concept of this; they just decided to live their lives, but in their lives was God.
You may struggle to notice the significance of your life in work, in your town or even your church. Nothing miraculous has happened in your life and so does this mean that God is not present or active? After all surely you would notice. Ruth and Boaz never noticed God at work in their lives on this occasion; it was just an ordinary everyday decision. Even in the ordinariness of your life God is at work, and who knows what story of salvation he will write in someone’s life because of ordinary decisions you make today.Rejoice because God is the God of the ordinary as well as the miraculous, but even the ordinary is extra-ordinary in His presence.
-Andrew Carey
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