I have a bone to pick with those who ...

I have a bone to pick with those who claim that ordinary people do extraordinary things in the Kingdom.  As I look at the heroes of the faith my realization is that everyone has the capacity to be extraordinary...but few choose this path.

It is a herculean effort to push through the ordinary.  It is moment by moment choices to evaluate the consequences of your decisions and to allow God to change us.  It doesn't matter whether you return to square one a gazillion times...what matters is that you return.

I think God has called us all to be extraordinary, but I think few answer the call.   I think many of us opt to rewrite the plans God has for us and settle for the mundane.  It is definitely less controversial and there is no elasticity in our lives.  It is much easier to be predictable.  It takes less energy, blood, sweat and tears to not make a difference.  I think you are much more likable when people know what to expect and I think the comfort of a routine life is satisfying to the flesh.

I believe our walk with God should be exciting, unpredictable, and painful.  I think we should be looking around all corners waiting for God to jump out and yell "Boo!"  I believe God made the mind with the ability to create as He did and  not to is the antithesis to His divine order. I think God wants us to question that around us and query Him with unsearchable curiosity.

When I look to nature itself and see the hand of the magnificent Creator, I begin to wonder about my smallness.  My inability to affect anything around me.  My physical limitations, whether it is what I put my hands and feet too or what I put my thoughts to.  I wonder what purpose is my occupying this space of dirt on planet Earth.  I have to run to the Word and look for definition and  I realize what I think is important, is trivial, compared to what He thinks is important and to find sense or value in this life means I need to go to the one who created this life and find out what His plans were.

I can't comprehend all that He has in store for me and I believe that He intends on me living a supernatural life with my existence making a difference in the spiritual realm.  I think He calls me to do far more greater things than I would ever feel capable of.  I believe He wants me to be extraordinary because He is extraordinary and I am made in his likeness.