“‘They shall walk, and not faint.” — Isaiah 40:31 What! Must we come down and run and walk here on this stupid, prosaic earth after these eagle flights? Yes, precisely. The eagle flight is unto that. We go up there that we may serve down here, and we never can serve down here according to God’s thought of service, until we trace the spirals of the upper air and have learned to be alone in the silent spaces with God. It is only the man who comes down from interviews with God who can touch human lives with the power of God. . . What is the “walk”? It is the everyday of life. It is the getting breakfast, dressing the children, getting them off to school; it is going down and opening the store; it is going out and feeding the herds; it is going into the study and opening the Word of God. It is whatever our appointed task may be. It is doing this all day, in heat and cold, dull days and bright days — the common life. It is this, the everyday walk, that tests and tries. Far easier is it to gather one’s energies for a swift run sometimes than it is to walk. But we have to walk; we are made to walk. We live a common life, a life of everyday duty, plain, prosaic and unbeautiful. But we may ‘walk, and not faint’ . . . under the wear and petty vexations and frictions of everyday life, only on condition that we have been ‘waiting upon God.’ The man who does that will be a reservoir of sweetness, quietness and power.”-C.I. Scofield
This is quite an amazing and meaningful picture of the ordinary life we believers have on earth. Doing the laundry, filling my gas tank, telling my speech kids for the ten thousandth time that it’s a “spoon”, not a “‘poon”: when I see that these things are God’s appointed tasks for me, and I do them in a restful, glorifying-to-him way, the dullness and commonness do not make me faint. Instead, I am filled with the greatest purpose, the greatest joy. I am honoring my Father through the life he has given me.
Lately, I’ve been reading through the gospels and meditating on Jesus’ amazing life, death, and resurrection. After reading Scofield’s words above, it struck me that before our Savior began his public ministry, he led the very definition of a normal life. For his first 30 (!) years, Jesus was absolutely ordinary. He went to school as a boy, participated in family life, learned his father’s trade. Later, having grown, he got up in the morning and went to work and synagogue. He was a typical Jewish first-century man, albeit without a trace of sin.
Still, he walked. He was ordinary, a man “of no reputation” (Philippians 2:7). There is something sweet and sacred in recognizing that the King of Glory knows what it is like to lead “the common life”, and in knowing that he can give me the strength to do the mundane in a way that brings honor to him.
Made for Eternity 
Thanks for sharing Katie, very encouraging and a great reminder that because of His death in our place we not only have the strength to live for Him but it is an honor. “For me to live is Christ and to die is gain”…but the verse that is to prominent in relation to this is Galatians 2:20 🙂
Thanks for sharing Katie! That was just the convicting reminder I needed to hear as I’m sitting here trying to avoid homework. Grateful that because of Christ we can rest and “walk” in the midst of all the craziness of this world.