Too small?

There is a beautiful theme running through the Bible, and it is to do with what is small. What is insignificant. What is overlooked, what is weak, what is un-beautiful. What is rejected. And the theme goes likes this: God takes the too-small or too-whatever thing that humans dismiss, and makes something of it. In fact, the thing that is rejected becomes the very thing through which God’s story is able to unfurl.

The barren woman becomes the mother to a nation.

The man with the stutter leads his people to freedom.

The boy defeats the giant with a single stone.

This Sunday we will consider an un-beautiful woman and a tiny seed – and see how God used both of these things to create something wonderful.

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