Every person in their own life has these experiences. If they fail, they will either pick up the broken pieces and build again or else they will surrender. If they are tempted, they will sell out or else they will come through with a gallant victory. God seems to have created life in such a way that ordinary people have to become extraordinary at times or perish.
The last thing we may say is that Christ comes to make the ordinary people extraordinary. It is the saints in the Bible who became great because of their faith in God. The Disciples were not leaders of the community but the kind of fellows we probably would have kept out of our church leadership. Even Paul who was a genius in his mind was sickly and far from impressive in appearance.
This is good news for us. We don not have to wait for some genius or some great leader. We only have to let God put His hand upon us and lift us up to a higher level of morality and devotion. This is the time for Christian sons and daughters to stop acting like ordinary people and become extraordinary witnesses of Christ.
Bishop Gerald Kennedy
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