appropriate ordinariness

Day 113

I’ve don’t think I’ve ever been the best at anything I’ve ever done. Not the best student, not the best actress, not the best poet, not the best clinician, not anybody’s best friend. I have done all right in school (going on 19 years of schooling now – I’m about ready to be done), I love acting and writing, I enjoy working with people in clinic, I have several very close friends. Still, I really don’t stand out in a crowd. I’m pretty normal. And you know what? I like that. I have a niche in ordinariness.

The danger of being ordinary though, is that one is easily fooled into wallowing in mediocrity. I can put my life on cruise control and just slide along. That’s not good. I can glorify God in my appropriate ordinariness. I will not bring him glory when I am merely mediocre.

Onward.

Spiritual Vitamins for Believers, Part 6:

1. I am to the praise of His glory (Eph. 1:6,12).
2. I am light in the Lord (Eph. 5:8).
3. I am a child of light (Eph. 5:8; 1 Thess. 5:5).
4. I am a “peculiar person,” even God’s special, purchased possession (Tit. 2:14; 1 Pet.2:9).
5. I am a priest who can offer spiritual sacrifices (Heb. 13:15-16; 1 Pet. 2:5,9; Rev. 1:6; 5:10;20:6).
6. I am a king who will reign (Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 20:6).
7. I am privileged to have fellowship with the Father and with the Son (1 John 1:3).
8. I dwell in Christ (John 6:56; 1 John 3:24; 4:13,15,16).
9. Christ dwells in me (John 6:56; Gal. 2:20; 1 John 3:24; 4:12-16).
10. I am in Christ (John 14:20; 2 Cor. 5:17).