Ordinary People

From: Greg Laurie Ministries

Luke 1:34 "But Mary said to the angel, 'How can this be...?'" 

Do you think Mary, in her wildest dreams, ever would have imagined that she was the Virgin the prophet Isaiah spoke of when he said, "Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel." (Isaiah 7:14) Do you think when she heard that, she said, "I am going to be that woman. That’s me"? No, Mary was shocked that God had chosen her. "How can this be...?", she said to the angel when she was told of her mission.

It seems to me that when God uses people, they are always amazed that He would choose someone like them. A truly godly person will never boast of his or her great devotion or holiness. They won’t talk about what they have done for God. Rather, they will talk about what God has done for them.

God chose a young, unknown girl who lived in a relatively unknown city to bring about the most known event in human history. God specializes in choosing ordinary people and doing extraordinary things with them and through them.