God did not use a celebrity to bring Jesus into this world; he used an ordinary,
teenage girl named Mary, who was a Jewish peasant woman. She was not
from Buckingham palace, but a hick town named Nazareth. She was a
nobody, from nowhere. In our day and age Mary is famous, because her story
is told in the bible. But at the time this story happened, she was a nobody.
And yet God chose her to bring the savior into this world.
This is a pattern in the bible: God uses ordinary people to do extra ordinary
things. For example:
He used a deceiver like Jacob to become father to the Israelite nation.
He used a slave like Joseph to save his family.
He used a shepherd like Moses to lead the Israelites out of the bondage of Egypt.
He used farmer named Gideon to deliver Israel from Midian.
He used a homemaker named Hannah to be the mother of Samuel.
He used a shepherd boy named David to be Israel’s greatest king.
He used a slave girl named Esther to save her people from a massacre.
He used a tax collector named Matthew to be an apostle and gospel writer.
He used a fisherman named Peter to be a leader of the early church.
And he used a teenage peasant girl from Nazareth to give birth to the savior of the world.
Henry Blackaby quips, “An ordinary person is who God most likes to
use. Paul said that God deliberately seeks out the weak things and the
despised things because it is from them that He can receive the greatest
glory. Then everyone will know that only God could have done it. If you
feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God
can work.”