IN THE BUSINESS

During the 1st century, every Jewish boy was expected to enroll in school at a young age so they could try their hand at learning the Hebrew religious tradition. By the time the teenage years rolled around, the top performers who showed the greatest proficiency moved on to further Rabbinic training while the remaining kids were sent home to learn a trade from dad.

So when Jesus calls a group of young fisherman to be his disciples in Luke 5, everybody in that day would have known that these weren't the brightest of dudes. There were the dropouts from religious training school and just your typical, normal, everyday average Joes. There were hundreds of bright, up and coming religious leaders that Jesus could have asked to be his followers, but he didn't. Instead he chose to spend his time teaching and molding these humble fisherman into the pillars of the early church that would turn the world upside down. Luckily for you and I, Jesus is still in the business of training and using humble, normal, average, everyday people who have no business being used by God. All he asks is that we're ready and willing to learn. Are you?

"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 things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are...It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus... Therefore let him who boasts boast in the Lord." - 1 Corinthians 1:27-30