Barbie shares her thought for the week; thanking God for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

I’ve been reading the miracles of Jesus lately like a lot of you have as well in your small groups. I’ve realised that a lot of times when Jesus performed one of his miracles, he was doing something ordinary and then was interrupted to do something extraordinary.

I look at him being at a wedding and being asked to do something by his mother and turning water into wine. I see him walking along a road and a beggar crying out to him and him healing blind Bartimaeus. I see him as just preaching and people opening a roof and lowering a man and him being able to heal the person who couldn’t walk, the lame man. I see often that God reaches down into our ordinary lives and does something extraordinary.

He heals us, he’s saved us, but also those little things that we sometimes can write off as coincidences. The times when a car pulls suddenly in front of you and you manage to avoid and you think, “Wow, that was a near miss.” The times when you’re looking for money and you dig in a pocket and you find the £10 that you didn’t know was there. Wow, that’s amazing!

Sometimes we need to really look and see that actually God is reaching into our ordinary and doing something extraordinary even when we don’t recognise it. But how do we respond to this? I look at the 10 lepers that Jesus healed. He sent them off to go to the priest to show their leprosy was gone. None of them did what he asked, but one came back and thanked him. That’s what I want to be like today.

I’ve also been reading the Psalms and in 103 I read this.

Let all that I am praise the Lord, with my whole heart I will praise His holy name. Let all that I am praise the Lord, may I never forget the good things He does for me. He forgives my sins. He heals all my diseases. He redeems me from death and crowns me with His love and tender mercies. He fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed like the eagles. Praise the Lord, everything that He has created, everything in all His kingdom. Let all that I am praise the Lord.

Psalm 103

This is how I am choosing to thank God for reaching into my ordinary and doing the extraordinary. How about you? God bless.

Every week one of our members shares a short thought aiming to inspire you for the week. You can watch previous Thought For The Week videos by clicking here.