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The Quokka
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Native only to Australia, this little creature caught my eye on the net yesterday. I couldn't help but think how cute it was. He really doesn't amount to much, but it is cute. And I thought about Human beings; most of them you will meet in your life are just ordinary people. And that is a good thing, for if everyone where a Summa Cum Laude Harvard graduate, who would there be to wash dishes, mow the lawn, pick up garbage, etc.. From there, I turned my thoughts to the early Christians and remembered the following passage from Paul's 1 Corinthian letter....
1 Corinthians 1 ( World English Bible )
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe. 22 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; 28 and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are: 29 that no flesh should boast before God. 30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: 31 that, according as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
God loves everyone, including the "Ordinary" human being. God uses those of us who are "Ordinary" to show his wisdom in this world as well as those who excel. It is common to see people who do excel in this life boast about it, but for those who follow God (whoever they may be) their boasting is about the Lord.
Today, take a good look at yourself in the mirror and then make a silly face. No matter how foolish or stupid you may appear, you still have something to boast about. So be happy! I can tell you that the Quokka is a happy creature (just look at his face) and boy does he look funny.