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. (Ro 12:1-2 MSG)
If what God does has to be some big spectacular thing in order for us to recognize it as being His activity, then we will probably miss a lot of what God is doing around us. God is involved in the ordinary everyday living of life and is constantly revealing Himself, His purpose and His ways in ordinary life.
I like it when God shows up and does something incredible, but if that is the only time I am excited about Him or even recognize His activity around me, then I am mostly missing out on God’s involvement in my life and the lives of those around me.
We must live in the now, interacting with God and others in the present moment we are in. Anything other than that and we are disengaged with life, out of balance with its rhythm, and out of sync with God’s Spirit.
Let us cry out to God that we might see Him not only in His extraordinary supernatural dealings, but also in His involvement in the ordinary issues of life.
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