Romans 9:21 has significance to me for a variety
of reasons, but something fresh hit me when I read it, today:
“Does
not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery
for special purposes and some for common use?” (NIV).
Synonyms for ‘common’ include words like
ordinary, regular, usual, and conventional.
A quick synonym search in Microsoft Word will even bring up the phrase, “nothing
special.” But ‘common’ has more than one
meaning…
It also means, “shared… mutual… communal…
collective… for all…” Instead of “nothing
special,” common might, indeed, be extraordinary.
What if some of us are made for use by
everyone? Kind of makes me think of
Jesus…
L.
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