The Secret to Thriving in the Ordinary
Can I remind you of something: Mundane doesn’t mean unimportant. Sometimes a hard life is just an ordinary one. The ordinary is where our faith is lived out.
Tweet This“It does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours in every day as a saint – to go through drudgery as a disciple, to live an ordinary, unobserved, ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus. It is inbred of us that we have to do exceptional things for God; but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people.”
Oswald Chambers
Exceptional in the ordinary things. Yes. I want to be faithful to the everyday. When the Lord says He will equip you, He might not mean for something big. Something grand or glorious. He might be equipping you for something ordinary. Small. Invisible. Doing exceptional things means we live our lives in the daily. We know the true life of faith is thriving in the familiar.
I will not be remembered in the hearts of those I love for my one big thing. I will be remembered, when I am gone, for the little things. When I think about my grandmother, I remember the everydayness of her. Her flatter-than-flat pancakes. Her klodiake bars in the freezer. Her coffee mug on the end table in living room. Her porch glider. Her laughter. And laundry drying in the kitchen. Ordinary things are sometimes the most important things.
So today I live, knowing the glorious works of motherhood, sisterhood, and friendship are not invisible. The ordinary days may not be noticed. Or appreciated. Or mentioned. The glorious ordinary is seen by a glorious God. When I do all of the laundry in one day and stand back, no one applauds with loud cheering. When my floors are freshly mopped, the thanks I usually get is spilled milk. The work I do matters because I matter. I matter to God. The secret to thriving in the ordinary is to remember I matter to God.
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Thank you so much for your sweet words. I love your encouragement in this- there is so much that is good in the mundane
I completely agree. There is something extraordinary in very ordinary days. Thanks for sharing.
This is so true!
Amen! It’s taken me a long time to come to grips with this simple truth. Funny how God’s ways really, really aren’t our ways, and the things we planned for our lives sometimes just don’t happen. But He knows! He knows exactly what He created us for.
The book sounds like it’s a good one!
This is beautiful and just what I needed to hear today!
This is so true, Sarah. I won’t be remembered for the one BIG thing (I hope or desire to be known for). it’s all the little things, those mundane but necessary acts of love that God sees and rewards, that truly mean something. Thank you for the beautiful reminder.
Visiting from #MomtoMomMondays.
Thanks for reading Gleniece! Keep doing the little things. They aren’t invisible!
Excellent reminder for believers in a culture that clamors to be visible. We can trust that everything we do is seen by God and counts for eternity.
Yes! God sees. So comforting. Thanks for reading Karen.
Beautiful words of how our value and worth is not found in what we do or what we think is ordinary, but in our amazing God who gives all things we do purpose. Thanks for sharing at Mom-to-Mom Mondays.