“It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God – but we do not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people – and this is not learned in five minutes.” Oswald Chambers
Discipleship is a process. It’s moment by moment. It’s the ordinary things that produce the character necessary to support the Great Moments. The exceptional things I may have the privilege of doing for God are only in proportion to the character built in the ordinary things. This is the stuff that qualifies you for the doing of exceptional things for God.
Living only for the exceptional moments in life will leave you with an emptiness most of the time. You will live in nostalgia, vicariously living through a few moments of your past or miss life all together being driven to achieve one moment of elusive greatness.
Discipleship is about character built through relationship. To be a disciple is to live so deeply and intimately with Jesus in every ordinary moment so when the time comes for me to do something exceptional, I will by nature be ready and not faulter – even if my greatest moment is the cross.
How are you doing in the ordinary moments?
What ordinary thing hae you done lately?
I like this a lot. There’s a whole lot less pressure in “doing God’s will” or “living for God” when we look at it this way. We don’t struggle to search for this amazing plan God has for our lives when we realize that His amazing plan happens in our day to day lives. We always complicate things He intended to be simple, and I love the thought of doing the ordinary and it being extrordinary.
WOW. that really got the brain cell swimming around. thanks man!