19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him, the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in him, you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. Ephesians 2:19-22
Tonight, my wife and I saw the movie 'Overcomer'. It is a movie about how God can take any life and bring meaning to it. This movie is about a winning basketball coach who is good at motivating his team. Despite losing the final game of the season, he told his players that next year the team that just beat them will graduate most of their players while every one of them was returning which translates into a winning season.
This was fine until the largest employer in town shut its doors which began a painful process of losing his good players as families moved away. One day, coach Harrelson was asked to coach cross country, a sport that really didn't exist in his mind. God had other plans though when a 15-year-old girl with asthma was the lone person to sign up for the cross country team. Coach Harrelson reluctantly accepted the new assignment and poured his heart into his one-person team. When he accepted this new 'less than desirable assignment, he began to see that God was about to use him in his runner's life.
How many of us lament over the job that is less than satisfying?
In an era of social media, it is easy to get down on oneself when you see post after post about people having successful careers when you are much lower on the ladder of that success.
This movie reminded me that no matter where you are in this life, God can use you to help others around you.
Your life is worth living because just as Ephesians reminds us, you are "fellow-citizens built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone."
The moment you accept Christ into your life, you become the hands and feet of Christ with a desire to help others around you. Yes, you have a part in the Kingdom of God just as Coach Harrelson helped a 15-year-old girl reunite with her gravely ill father lying in a hospital room- a room Coach Harrelson accidentally opened the wrong door. God can take any life and redeem it for good.
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