Everyday Life with God

I like the spectacular. I like it when big, significant things are happening, and especially if I am in the middle of them. I can tend to get bored with regular, hum-drum, everyday living.

But God is just as present in the hum-drum as He is in the spectacular. He is just as much a part of our regular everyday life, as He is part of what we would refer to as the spiritually significant times of our lives.

By our prayers, it seems we tend to think God’s reality is best presented in the midst of Elijah-like earthquakes, tornados, and fires, but it is in the quiet whisper of everyday life that God’s reality is more clearly presented.

It is in the loving of those who are hurtful, in the serving of those who can’t help themselves, in the kindness shown to those who are non-caring, in the diligence shown in unpleasant tasks, in the proper attitudes and responses which stand against the norm of a fallen world.

We do the Romans 12 one two - God I give myself to You, but we add a hidden condition. I sacrifice myself to You for something spectacular. We think spectacular it is the grand finally at a fire works show, when in reality it is the cleaning up of the mess that is left over after everyone else has gone home.

So, how ya doing with the sacrifice thing?

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. (Romans 12:1-2 )