Who is the person that you think to yourself, there’s no way God can use them!

There is no way that God can possible use that person.  Look who they are!  Look where they are from!  Surely they are not usable by God.

Who is that person for you?  Where is that place for you?

Listen to what some folks said this morning about Jesus in John 7:

They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Search the Scriptures and see for yourself—no prophet ever comes from Galilee!”

Galilee was from the northern part of Israel. And while it was, and is in my opinion, the most beautiful part of Israel, it is not the most “prestigious.”  A prophet is supposed to come from Jerusalem, the political and spiritual capital of Israel.

Or a prophet is supposed to come from Bethlehem, the place where King David was from. That’s where a prophet was supposed to come from!

And this Jesus, was from Galilee, they knew that!  But did they?

See, they thought that Jesus from Galilee because that’s where He did  most of His ministry from and where His family moved to.  But, we know the rest of the story.  We know that He was actually born in Bethlehem where a the Messiah was supposed to be born.

See, the didn’t know the whole story. They they thought they did. And because of that, along with other reasons, they missed what God was doing.

They misjudged Jesus. They thought that, based off their limited knowledge, God couldn’t use Him.

Today, who are you misjudging?  Who have you already made up your mind about, without knowing the entire story? Who have you, and I, have we prejudged? Who have we already formed an opinion on, that may not be the entire the story?

God may want to speak to us through that person.  If our opinion is already formed, though, we may not be able to listen.  We need to be able to listen to all the ways that God wants to speak to us today.

Who have we misjudged?

They misjudged Jesus without knowing the truth.  Today, may we make not make that same mistake.  May we love, listen, and follow God. And may we be open to all the ways that God will speak. Today, and always.