Nobody by Casting Crowns – WOW! What a powerful song! Talk about hitting the nail on the head. This song speaks to the fact that even though we are sinners who are far from perfect, God has a way of using us if we acknowledge that fact and submit to His power working in and through us.
Why would God choose a man like a Moses to lead His people when Moses is afraid of speaking?! Why would the LORD allow young David to represent Israel against the mighty Goliath?! Why didn’t Jesus pick twelve bible scholars to start up the church? The answer: because God loves to use insignificant people to highlight His power, wisdom, and might. Otherwise, people might get the idea that they can do it on their own.
I like the saying, “God created something out of nothing. Maybe if we admit we are nothing God will make something of us.” I also like the evangelism slogan: We are just beggars telling other beggars where to get the bread.
The apostle Paul writes something similar, “…for in no respect was I inferior to the most eminent apostles, even though I am a nobody” (II Corinthians 12:11). And, in I Corinthians 15:9-10 he writes, “For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.”
Read I Corinthians 12:12-26. Then listen to Nobody by Casting Crowns (featuring Matthew West). After that pray for God to work through little ole you to do something in the kingdom for Jesus’ sake.
1 Corinthians 12:12-26
For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body. And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired. If they were all one member, where would the body be? But now there are many members, but one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary; and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable, whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.