A View From A Pew: When God Turns Nobodies Into Somebodies

Let me tell you something about the God I serve — He’s got a way of doing things that’ll make your jaw drop and your hat fall off. God has this holy habit of reaching down into the background, picking up a nobody, and turning them into a somebody right in front of everybody — and He doesn’t ask nobody for their approval.

That’s the thing about divine promotion — it’s not voted on, it’s appointed. God doesn’t check résumés or references before He blesses. He doesn’t call a committee meeting to decide your destiny. When God says it’s your season, doors open, tables turn, and favor flows — even if the folks in the front row didn’t clap for you.

Some of us need to stop waiting on people to recognize what God has already ordained. You’ve been sitting there, phone in hand, staring at the screen, waiting for that text, that call, that apology — that validation. But while you’re waiting on them, they’re waiting on somebody else. And that’s the truth we don’t like to face.

See, the same people you would’ve dropped everything for — the ones you prayed for, cried for, fought for — weren’t even thinking about you when your heart was heavy. While you were out here wrestling with loneliness, they were out enjoying company. But here’s what I learned: God will sometimes let people overlook you so that they don’t get the credit for your blessing.

When you were suffering in silence, He was shaping you in secret. When you were crying in the dark, He was cleansing your spirit. When you felt abandoned, He was aligning your path. Every unanswered call, every delayed door, every closed chapter — it wasn’t rejection; it was redirection.

And here’s the beautiful paradox of God’s process:

• Grapes have to be crushed to make wine — sweetness is born through pressure.
• Diamonds are formed under heat and tension — brilliance comes from breaking.
• Olives are pressed to release oil — anointing flows from affliction.
• Seeds grow in darkness — the deepest transformation happens where no one can see.

So if you find yourself right now in a season where you feel crushed, pressed, buried, or stretched — don’t panic. You’re not being destroyed, you’re being developed. God’s got you in the lab, not the landfill. You’re not being buried; you’re being planted. And the soil that covers you today will become the stage that reveals you tomorrow.

Remember, transformation rarely looks pretty while it’s happening. It’s messy. It’s painful. It’s confusing. But it’s also holy. Because while you’re wondering what’s going wrong, heaven is whispering, “Everything is going right.”

Some of you have been asking, “Lord, why am I going through all this?”
And God is saying, “Because I’m trusting you with a testimony.”
He’s preparing you for rooms you haven’t entered yet, for blessings you couldn’t have carried last year, for influence you couldn’t have handled when you still needed validation from others.

See, before God shows you off, He has to sit you down. Before He elevates you, He isolates you. Before He blesses you, He breaks you — not to hurt you, but to shape you into someone who can handle the weight of the blessing.

And when it’s your turn — when the cocoon breaks, when the crushing is complete, when the oil begins to flow — the same folks who looked past you, ignored you, or talked about you will have to witness what God has done through you. Not for revenge, but for revelation. So that everyone will know: “This right here wasn’t luck — that was God.”

So stop staring at your phone, waiting on folks who missed their assignment in your life. Stop replaying what you lost and start preparing for what’s next. Because the very moment you think God has forgotten you is often the moment He’s finishing up the details of your breakthrough.

Every tear you’ve cried watered the soil of your destiny. Every disappointment became the fertilizer for your growth. Every betrayal cleared the stage for your elevation. You had to lose some things — and some people — to make room for what God’s bringing next.

So take heart, my friend. You’re not behind. You’re not overlooked. You’re not forgotten. You’re just in process — and when the process is complete, you won’t even recognize the person you’ve become.

God’s about to take the one they laughed at, doubted, dismissed, and disregarded — and He’s going to raise you up in plain view of every critic, every doubter, and every hater. And when it happens, you’ll smile — not with bitterness, but with gratitude — because you’ll finally understand that every crushing, every pressing, and every dark night had a divine purpose.

Because when God gets done with you, He doesn’t just restore you — He reveals you. And when He reveals you, there won’t be any doubt in anyone’s mind:

That must be God.