If we were to launch a movement, we'd go to the most powerful universities in the land and pick the top achievers from each. We'd find the most expensive consultants and ask them to design a program that would ensure the movement would last for centuries. We'd carefully plot out every step.
And it would look nothing like the movement that Jesus launches when he calls his first disciples. Jesus calls fishermen -- men who likely weren't chosen at some point to go on in synagogue school, men who weren't overly educated, men who didn't have easy access to the halls of power. Jesus calls them, and they follow, and they are the beginning of something incredible, something remarkable, something that the world hadn't seen before. God was doing a new thing, something that humans couldn't have conceived of on our own.
So let us marvel at how God's plans are different than our own, and let us accept that we don't always know what is best. May we remain humbly and approach the throne of grace by acknowledging that we don't always get the whole picture. May we trust in God and have faith in the next step, even when we cannot see it.
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