Nintendo changed the gaming world forever with the release of their home consoles, but the “Game Boy” represented an entirely new frontier… a gaming handheld. To launch their most ambitious project yet, Nintendo needed a “killer app”… a game that would resonate with the widest possible audience while showcasing the capabilities of their new portable system. Enter Tetris… an iconic puzzler that didn’t look like much on the surface, but contained the perfect blend of pick-up and play accessibility with an addictive gameplay hook that would carry the Game Boy to unprecedented sales and change the landscape of gaming forever.

Tetris didn’t look like a title that would carry a entirely new platform on the surface, but those little monochrome blocks were exactly what the world needed… and similarly the Lord doesn’t select us for our missions in life based on arbitrary external factors. He looks at our heart, choosing to use these simple vessels of flesh and blood to carry His message with the power that comes from His Spirit. Don’t permit your perceived limitations talk you out of what you’re designed to do… He chose you for this.

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7

And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. 1 Corinthians 2:1-5

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