Day 31

This week God is reminding me about the importance of living all of my ordinary life with Him in mind. He doesn't expect me to do great, spectacular feats for Him. Those are not His measure of how effectively I am following Him. He is more interested in my willingness to approach the ordinary tasks of daily living, the routine matters that make up my actual life, in the manner that Jesus would approach them.

I've visited Colossians 3:17 several times recently: "And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."

I need to keep learning that my life in Christ is not only a matter of what I do, but of how I do it. Whatever I do (and most of what I do is the routine of life) I am to do in the manner of Jesus. That helps me understand that any soul revolution that takes place in me is one that encompasses my everyday life -not only my church life or religious life. It also frees me from falsely thinking that I am of little use to God unless I am performing great and spectacular feats for Him.

I have the following quote from Oswald Chambers taped to the front of my computer:
"The thing that tells in the long run for God and men is the steady persevering work in the unseen. It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God; but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things. It does require the supernatural grace of God to live an ordinary, unobserved, ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus."

Have an exceptional ordinary revolution day!

Pastor Bill