Embracing Obscurity: Becoming Nothing in Light of God’s Everything

by Anonymous

your significance to God never was and never will be based on your accomplishments. Just because you’ve now done something “important” doesn’t mean you weren’t just as foolish, powerless, despised, or worthless (in the world’s eyes) when God chose you to be His. Do you remember why? Verse 29 reminds us that the whole reason God chooses the nobodies of this world—like you and like me—for His kingdom work is so that “no one can ever boast in the presence of God” (nlt). “If you want to boast, boast only about the Lord” (v. 31 nlt). God wanted to make sure that the hood we came from (literally or otherwise) would keep us from getting big heads about our present and future successes. Let’s say it together now: I am not that important (see Gal. 6:3). (There, that wasn’t so bad, was it?)