Take your everyday, ordinary life and
place it before God. God will take your ordinary life and use it for incredible
purposes.
It is in the ordinary and mundane
stuff of life that we are called to live as Christ followers, loving God,
neighbor and self. It is in the ordinary routines of our lives where God will
most often use us as instruments of grace.
The spiritual writer Julie Porter wrote,
“Much work that isn't interesting or fun
is vital to human life and community, and the ones who perform it serve as the
hands of God...”
In your daily
life, how might you become the hands of God to your family and friends and
strangers? How might you serve other people in the mundane routines of daily
life?
It’s strange but true to say that in
the mundane things of life it is most difficult to be faithful, loving,
hopeful, and generous. Our Christian task, however, is to be heroes and
heroines of grace when life is most tedious, hum-drum, and commonplace.
Each day presents us
with simple possibilities to serve God. Helping a neighbor or volunteering at a
school. Helping a stranger with $10 worth of gas. Listening to a grieving co-worker
or volunteering at the COA, teaching Sunday school or buying extra food at the
grocery to give to the food pantry.
In one of the church’s I served there
was a homebound widow by the name of Jo. Though homebound, Jo said that she had
found a way for God to use her. Every week Nellie sent a hand written card to
everyone in the church who was sick, homebound, or grieving.
You might think, “Well, it’s just a
card”—but you’d be wrong. Over the years, Jo’s cards were seen by those who
received them as God’s grace made visible. Jo’s old, shaky hands became God’s
hands to the hurting and lonely.
Never
think for one moment that God cannot use you as a vehicle of grace. Take your everyday, ordinary life and place it
before God. And God will take your ordinary life and use it for incredible
purposes.
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