"Nobodies"

I was thinking recently about who can make a difference in this world, especially in light of the high profile of politics these days. I was talking to a friend who registered the frustration of how he felt he could not make any difference since he is a “nobody” in the grand scheme of things. As we continue through John’s Gospel, I am also re-reading the Book of Exodus (which will be our sermon series starting in June) and I was caught by a little detail. We know the names of the two mid-wives who protected the Hebrew children from Pharaoh’s insidious law of infanticide - Shiphrah and Puah (Exodus 1:15). Whose name do we not know? Pharaoh’s name! So never assume that your service to Christ is a little thing. The powers-that-be are nothing in the eyes of God compared to the selfless devotion of the so-called “nobodies” in Christ.