I'm going to be able to be.

I'm going to be.

I'm going to be. Social media can help us stay connected to friends and family members, but sometimes the pictures we see on social media makes it look like everyone else is living a remarkable life, and we feel pretty ordinary.

Well, being ordinary doesn't mean we're insignificant. And today on Truth for Life,

Alistair Begg illustrates how God uses ordinary people and ordinary events for extraordinary purposes.

When you read the story of judges, you find that the backdrop against which this wonderful

little story of Ruth is said is one of civil strife and of national upheavals and

of international concerns.

And then right in the middle of all of that,

God gives to us this story about ordinary people

facing the ordinary events of life.

And when you read these four chapters,

you realize that here we are introduced to a small group of

people who are just like the rest of us dealing with the everyday routines of life. Now, that ought to

be immediately an encouragement to most of us, because despite protestations to the reverse, the

fact is that most of our lives are rather humdrum.

It is a tremendous encouragement to turn to this little book of Ruth and realize that the

God who's in charge of the whole universe actually knows the names and is interested in the

affairs of these ordinary people in the village life of Bethlehem.

So the book serves as a necessary correction to our proneness to believe that ordinaryness must be the precursor to uselessness. It also is a

very important reminder when we are prone to go in search of the unusual and the

spectacular. Here, this story says, God doesn't need you to be unusual and he doesn't need

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