I was at a prayer meeting this week and the person leading this came out with a comment which blew me away just a little bit. The comment was nothing new, but was expressed in such a way as to make me marvel a little bit more at how amazing God works things out. The comment was simply that, “God took away the sins of the cosmos, by placing some cells into the womb of a virgin”.

Isn’t it just incredible how God uses the smallest possible way to do the hugest possible things? We see also in Genesis 2 where God made the first human being by taking a bit of dirt and breathing on it! You would think that the all powerful God would have started off His cherished human race in a more spectacular fashion wouldn’t you.

The truth is I love it – I love the way that God does things in ways that seem absolute madness to the so called intelligent ones among us. I love the way God says (in 1 Corinthians 1):

“Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised thingsââ?¬â?and the things that are notââ?¬â?to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.”

These verses are of great comfort to me – because they speak of a power that is part of the very core of who God is – and that power can be worked out in our lives through the simplest, most minute thing. In an age where every person, every business, every politician, every television programme is fighting to be the best, to be the biggest, I take heart in knowing that it is God who makes something great, it is God who makes things happen – and He could do any of those things with a bit of dirt that He picked up off the floor.