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This week we consider Nathanial's question to Phillip in John 1: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth? This question may have been a bit tongue in cheek, but it betrays a bias we often have against the ordinary and the unimpressive. Like Nathanial, we assume that God's Divine Truth must come from spectacular people or places or from centers of power, education, or religion. And yet, throughout Scripture, God shows his preference for calling and using those who are quite ordinary, unimpressive, and insignificant. We can be encouraged that God is more interested in being a great God than in all of us being great. In fact, it is in our humility that God can truly use us. What would it look like to embrace and embody lowliness this year, just as Christ chose to do? For it is there that God's glory can really shine.