Consider how strongly connected your mind and your thinking is to what you experience and do. When it comes to doing extraordinary things; our theme for this week, we often think and say "Well, I can't do anything extraordinary. I'll stick with the ordinary. Let's leave the extraordinary to Jesus and his miracles or at the very least those special few really gifted individuals."
But that is not how God wants to work today with you. God wants to use ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
What extraordinary thing is God wanting to do with ordinary you this week?
In fact, listen carefully, you are only just a thought away from extraordinary things. Yes you are! "Cogito ergo sum" - "I think, therefore I am" is a philosophical statement in Latin used by René Descartes. If you can think then you can become. And when it comes to our Creator, the sky is really the only limit.
What did these ordinary people end up doing?
We are the ones who limit God working in and through our lives. God does want to do extraordinary things in our lives and for others through us. Miracles are not just for the Bible days any more.
Three lessons come to us from scripture; especially in the extraordinary story of the feeding of the five thousand in Mark 6:30-44.
- Use what you have right now today. Don't wait for something special to come your way before you make use of the time, talent and gifts you already have.
- Commit what you have right now to God. Give God the credit for all the good things given to you and that come to you.
- Expect great things to happen for you, to you and through you for others.
More great things would be seen in our lives and in our world if we all said and thought this: "I Can." As the wise sage said, "The people who say 'I Can' and 'I Can't' are both right."
Blessing to you.
Have an extraordinary week.
Reverend Bill McBride
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