Life is often filled with the mundane,
the ordinary, and often routine.
There are the spectacular and extra-ordinary,
but mostly, our days are quite repetitive.
But what if we embrace the small and insignificant,
and give them our best, our finest?
What if we live our everyday moments not half-heartedly,
but from the heart, with our whole heart?
"Take your everyday, ordinary life - your sleeping,
eating, going to work, and walking-around life -
and place it before God as an offering."
(From Romans 12:1 MSG)
"Whatever you do, do it from the heart,
as something done for the Lord, and not for people;
knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance
from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ."
(Colossians 3:22-24 CSB)
Loving God above all, "is meant to be expressed not just in the religious dimension of our lives, but in every aspect of our existence."
(Paul David Tripp, in New Morning Mercies)
What if we use our ordinary moments to reflect His love, His creativity, His image, all that He is, to those around us?
On an ordinary day filled with the mundane,
on an extra-ordinary day filled with the beautiful,
it's who we gaze on; it's who holds our heart
that makes all the difference in how we live.
"A new heart is our only hope for seeing
our everyday, ordinary circumstances
as they truly are - places of worship where
God will transform us into His likeness."
(Ruth Chou Simons, in Beholding and Becoming)
(Reminders for myself - and for you? - to do all out of love for Him. From the heart, with our whole heart - big or small, ordinary or extra-ordinary, the routine and the spectacular, the simple and the beautiful. Taking all opportunities to give our best, to reflect our loving and creative God, to do it all for Him. All by His grace and power alone.)
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