I Wanted Extra on my Ordinary

I've been convicted of late that, though I take my faith seriously, maybe I make light of the thing I've been taught since I was a very little girl. I was taught, rightly, to love God, his Spirit, and his Son. I was taught to live for him, and keep his teachings close to my heart. All of these things are true in my life today, they live and breathe, but many times they seem ordinary. What a disastrous word for what God has done in this world for us, "ordinary." What a watered down shame of a word to describe how you feel sometimes in your faith, this "ordinary" farse.

Though on a daily basis I realize that Jesus is not ordinary, salvation did not come through ordinary means, God did not promise us an ordinary promise, and he did not reveal to us an ordinary revelation. There are days that I feel like I carry on with this ordinary life without a second look at the extraordinary life I have been given, with the extraordinary commission that has been set before me on this path. I'm not saying I am anything extraordinary, but God has an extraordinary plan for his glory to flow through any life that is willing to carry the weight. He uses us for extraordinary purposes for an extraordinary outcome.

So why is it that I keep walking so ordinarily? What I read in the scriptures does not compel me to be ordinary, they call me to be a tool, a component of the body that moves among people for the glory of his name and what a blessing that is in itself, to be recognized as a willing heart, ready to work for the family business that our Father started so long ago. There is nothing ordinary about that.

 
Well that's my thoughts for today, I know I am not alone in this drive to work for an extraordinary purpose. I thank God for the family he has created to bring the Gospel to the world to bring glory to himself, the rightful owner of any and all glory.

All to God