Turning the Ordinary into the Extraordinary – Finding God in Video Games

Crafting items in games like Animal Crossing typically involves the combination of some rare, hard-to-find items with other fairly normal and ordinary materials. For example, crafting a golden shovel involves taking the same everyday objects that we use to make a regular shovel and combining them with an exceptionally rare golden nugget, and building my giant robot was achieved by putting together a bunch of plain and common iron nuggets with other items that were much more costly and difficult to acquire. The most powerful items in the game aren’t found, they’re FORGED… and these common, ordinary sticks and rocks become something much greater when they are put together by a designer who knows the right combination to transform them into something extraordinary.

If I’m being honest, I often struggle with feeling so overwhelmingly “common and ordinary” that I can’t possibly be used by the Lord to grow His kingdom, but throughout the Bible His chosen vessels were selected from some very common and ordinary places. “Regular people” like Ruth, Mary, David, and Peter were used to accomplish mighty things through a combination of their faithful obedience and His divine power, so let’s place our seemingly small, meager materials into His hands and watch Him do the impossible!

For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. 1 Corinthians 1:26-29

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