Osawald Chambers is one of my favorite devotional authors. This morning's reading included the following kernel of truth. May it be a blessing to you as you go about your day.
Discipleship is built entirely on the supernatural grace of God. Walking on water is easy to someone with impulsive boldness, but walking on dry land as a disciple of Jesus Christ is something altogether different. Peter walked on the water to go to Jesus, but he "followed him at a distance" on dry land (Mark 14:54). We do not need the grace of God to withstand crisis- human nature and pride are sufficient for us to handle the stress and strain magnificently. But it does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours of every day as a saint, going though drudgery, and living an ordinary, unnoticed, and ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus. It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God- but we do not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people- and this is not learned in five minutes.
3 comments:
thanks mups - needed that! have a most wonderfully ordinary day doing the ordinary with the extrordinary grace of God!
love ya-
unna
Steph - thought of another book but can't find it to give you the author. The book is "Wilfred, Gordon, McDonald, Partridge". I always used it with my P/S class when we talked about doing good deeds. It's about a little boy who helps a resident f an old age home find her memory.
Thanks, Jill. I'll look it up. Have a blessed day.
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