No Longer Ordinary...

It usually doesn’t take long for us to discover that we are all ordinary people. But it also doesn’t take long for us to discover that our world is in need of something truly extra ordinary.
“Take the best spices, myrrh, fragrant cinnamon, fragrant cane, cassia and olive oil. Make these into a holy anointing oil. Then anoint Aaron and his sons. Consecrate them as priests to me. Don’t pour it on ordinary men. it’s holy, keep it holy.” Exodus 30:22-32
God had these first worshippers go to great lengths to make a fragrant oil. Why did He do that? Because that oil would be used to turn common things into holy things. Once the sacred oil was placed on an item in the tabernacle, the residence of God accompanied it so much that if a person even touched it they were affected. And once the oil was placed on a man, they were considered anointed by God’s power for extra-ordinary things. We look back to that day and wonder what it would have been like to watch a common man step up on a small stage, be anointed, and when he stepped down he was no longer a common man. How interesting then was the day of Pentecost to the Jews who understood how anointing turned a person into something uncommon. On that day the Holy Spirit descended and anointed everyone in the room! While we are 2000 years removed from that history, we still need to grasp the idea that Christ's’ plans include anointing you and me so we are NO LONGER ORDINARY! ~Verlon