Fourteen years ago, I received a Doctor of Ministry from
Covington Theological Seminary in Rossville, Georgia. All my family turned out to see me march down
the aisle with the velvet sleeves and all the trappings. But after the party that evening, I still had
to take out the trash. You see, with all
the accolades, I was still just an ordinary man who grew up in the country. All that knowledge was still held in my
simple head. Hey, did you realize that
the glorious Gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ is contained in ordinary
simple humans? It’s like keeping
valuable gold coins in an old peanut butter jar. The value isn’t in the container, the value
is the contents that are in the container.
Paul said it best in II Corinthians 4:7, “But we have this treasure in
earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of
us.” It isn’t about us, we are ordinary;
it’s about Jesus Christ, and He is extraordinary!
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