Imagine an elementary school football coach putting his fifth grade scrub team against an NFL powerhouse – AND WIN! How about a Ma and Pa shop going up against the likes of Walmart and Amazon and expect to successfully compete – AND DOES!
That’s how God does things. Scripture shows us a pattern of God using the little things of this world to bring big victories. One reason God does that is so we will not get the idea that we did it on our own. Consider Gideon in Judges 7 as God tells him to go to battle against the Midianites. Israel is outnumbered. They have 32,000 men and Midian has 135,000 – 4 to 1 odds in Midian’s favor! Surprisingly, God says, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me’ (Judges 7:2). So 22,000 go home and only 10,000 men are left to fight 135,000 Midianites – 13.5 to 1 odds in Midian’s favor! Then God says there are STILL too many Israelites. They end up with 300 measly men against 135,000 enemy soldiers – outnumbered 450 to 1! Now God has the enemy right where He wants them. Guess who won the victory? You guessed it – God and God’s people!
What kind of God would have the king and Savior of the world be born into this world in a cattle trough in a barn and expect him to be the king of kings and Lord of lords! What kind of God would put the most powerful person in the world in the most powerless place on the planet as Jesus is nailed to a cross! Yet, God demonstrates His power in the powerlessness of the cross.
The upshot to us is that God has a way of using seemingly insignificant people like you and me to help other people find salvation and grow in their faith. In the end people will spend eternity in the glory of heaven with God because He used little ole you and me.
Read I Corinthians 1:18-31. Then listen to Little Is Much by Downhere.
1 Corinthians 1:18-31
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the understanding of those who have understanding, I will confound.”
Where is the wise person? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than mankind, and the weakness of God is stronger than mankind.
For consider your calling, brothers and sisters, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the insignificant things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no human may boast before God. But it is due to Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as it is written: “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”