thirsting soul.

493 years ago, this past Sunday, Martin Luther hammered his 95 thesis on the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany. On Sunday I read Exodus 1-7, in which God calls a shepherd with a speech impediment to deliver His nation from slavery. 

 

These are good reminders of how God uses small, ill-equipped no-names to accomplish big, God-sized purposes. That’s what He does.

 

Heroes are good. Especially ones with inspiring stories like these. But you know what’s better than a no-name being used for great things? The great I AM humbling Himself for no-names: 

 

Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be used for His own advantage. Instead He emptied Himself by assuming the form of a slave, taking on the likeness of men. And when He had come as a man in His external form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death— even to death on a cross. For this reason God also highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow— of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth— and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. -Philippians 2:5-11