Praise Ablaze Church

Jesus! He has time for nobodies, unknowns, and common folks, people that the Pharisees said were cursed because they did not know the law. But Jesus said ‘The poor have the Gospel preached to them’; He was their champion. Like the Psalmist said ‘The lifter up of my head’. That is an ordinary thing to say about Jesus – which makes it so wonderful! It is so common for Him to lift people out of their littleness into greatness, and make apostles of fishermen. One doesn’t have to read between the lines of the Bible or delve into the Greek or Hebrew grammar. It is written large in God’ book – Jesus loved the unloved and unlovely. It is so usual, so normal and so workaday for Him. He picks up with drab uninteresting people living grey little lives and makes them special. In fact the whole Bible is full of it. God choosing the unlikely people, the youngest sons, the barren women, not many mighty and giving the nameless a name, putting His arms around them and acknowledging them. How wonderful. Thank you Jesus. REINHARD BONNKE