Nobodies

We are fascinated with the “somebodies” in our culture.

We watch TV shows about them.

We read magazine articles about them.

And we collect trivia about them…

What they drive.

What they wear.

What their opinion is about this and that.

What’s going on in their relationships.

What’s up with their kids.

With all this information we’ve collected, we can talk about them like we know them.

But we’re not nearly as interested in the “nobodies” of our culture, are we?

We don’t really want to know anything about them.

We tend to drive by, look away, and ignore…

Which brings me to this point:

We were all a bunch of nobodies until Somebody intervened.

“Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of ‘the brightest and the best’ among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families.

Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these ‘nobodies’ to expose the hollow pretensions of the ‘somebodies’?

Everything that we have—a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 1.26-31 MSG)

I love this. God deliberately chooses the nobodies.

And I want to be like that.

In a culture that overlooks, exploits, and abuses the “nobodies,” I want to see them…

I want to know them.

I want to know things about them.

I want to actually care. I want to be interested and invested.

I want to love the nobodies.

I want to be a “nobodies” magnet—a misfit magnet.