God travels in wonderful ways with human beings,
but he does not comply with the views and opinions of people. God does not go the way people prescribe for
him… Only the humble believe him and rejoice that God is so free and so
marvelous that he does wonders where people despair, that he takes what is
little and lowly and makes it marvelous.
And that is the wonder of all wonders, that God loves the lowly… God is
not ashamed of the lowliness of human beings.
God marches right in. He chooses
people as his instruments and performs his wonders where one would least expect
them. God is near to lowliness; he loves
the lost, the neglected, the unseemly, the excluded, the weak and broken.
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God is in the Manger
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