Genesis 1:27
God Created Man in His Own Image
27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Matthew 12:15-21
God’s Chosen Servant
15 Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. A large crowd followed him, and he healed all who were ill. 16 He warned them not to tell others about him. 17 This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
18 “Here is my servant whom I have chosen,
the one I love, in whom I delight;
I will put my Spirit on him,
and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
19 He will not quarrel or cry out;
no one will hear his voice in the streets.
20 A bruised reed he will not break,
and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out,
till he has brought justice through to victory.
21 In his name the nations will put their hope.”
Acts 4:13
The Disciples Were Ordinary Men
13 When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.
John 3:31
Jesus is from Heaven
31 The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all.
Matthew 7:28-29
Jesus Has This Authority
28 When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching; 29 for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.
Sometimes I think that we remember only certain things in our lives, and those are measured in moments...So, I think we remember more the moments in our lives, than we do remembering whole days or weeks...I have a daily routine that I go through each day...When I look and think about my daily routine it seems to repeat itself each day, then week and then month...Sometimes, when I reflect on this about the same routine, day in and day out, if I wanted to I could feel that life gets simple and monotonous...And in saying these things, then I must be admitting that much of my life is ordinary and common...Because many things I do and that go by me, I do not remember...And I have no memory of many things that went by in my life...Yet, in all this, the days rush by me so quickly...So, I also have learned that routines and an ordinary life are not necessarily boring...
In life we often want things to be more than ordinary...We ask, is that all there is?...We want things to be more than ordinary, we want more pomp and circumstance...Sometimes we may think that ordinary life brings ordinary trials and tribulations...We want things to be bigger and more to stay in our memories...I believe this is because we are restless for Something or Someone...St. Augustine said our restless hearts, will not rest, until they rest in Thee...We are seeking God, in these lamentations of our ordinary days and weeks and months...
C. S. Lewis said something very extraordinary about the ordinary...Lewis wrote, "It may be possible for each [person] to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor...The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor’s glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken...It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would strongly be tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare...All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations...It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another...There are no ordinary people...You have never talked to a mere mortal...This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn...We must play...But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously—no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption."...
I believe God created man in His Own Image...There are no ordinary people...Therefore, there are no ordinary lives...When I get caught up in life, I sometimes forget this...
In reading the gospels, I think I can get caught up in thinking Jesus should have and easily could have been surrounded more and more of the greatest of events in the world, with a grander entrance...Jesus visited ordinary places, villages, and people...His hand picked disciples were unschooled men...He could have done more, and gotten more attention than just being a Traveling Teacher...Sometimes I think, many times that His miracles were done with all the intention of being so low key, they were done -not to gain attention...They are what I might call "humble miracles."...Why do a miracle if it is not just a little bit for show, for the pomp and circumstance, and spreading the gospel?...Jesus could have gotten not only the nation of Israel's attention, but He could gotten the world's attention, and retained our attention, if He did His miracles differently...Yet, Jesus often went around telling people not to tell anyone about His miracles...This is how He felt about His miracles, and His miracles were done in a very unusual way to try to spread the good news, while He was on earth...Yet, most of the time, when He told people not to tell anyone, they did just the opposite, of what He had told them...Jesus completely perplexes and baffles everyone with His wisdom and this strong authority that He has...
When we think about these things, we can see that God's Son did have the most unique entrance into our world...Jesus mother was a virgin, and His Father is God...He taught like no other...He has no peers in what He did...He was the humblest of men...And He did miracle after miracle while He was on earth...And His word did get spread throughout the world...He did speak with great wisdom...He was the Greatest Theologian ever to walk the earth...Who can deny this?...He knew He was teaching to the common person with His parables, but He knew the teachers of the law, the chief priests, and Sanhedrin were listening to Him (and maybe learning too)...He knew His Father did not create ordinary men (and He never forgot or forgets this)...Jesus, in His way, ask us to remember the common and ordinary...He treated everyone as they were an individual and unique...No one had ever spoken about God before Him, or has spoken about God since, like Jesus did...No one knew God, like His Son knows Him...And there are people still writing about Him two thousand years later...He was no ordinary Man...I am not sure, it is fair to even call Him a Man...