God of the Ordinary

Why is it that we seem to need some extraordinary or unusual event to press us to the Messiah? When we hear a particularly moving testimony or a praise report of someone experiencing an unusually striking healing we may clap, shout, wave or give thanks to the Lord for his goodness.

What about all the people who don’t experience a healing from cancer? What about the true convert that Christ doesn’t release from jail? What about those who died in the car or plane crash rather than walking away without a scratch? Was God less real to them? Did they have less faith? Were they walking in some partial will of God or less than the ultimate that He had for them?

The miracle that is my breath is given to me as a gift every minute of every day that I live. At any moment God could have simply not actively desired that I exist, and I would not. The manna is laying all around us, but we’ve grown tired and accustomed to it after all these years.

Think about it as you go about your ordinary day.