On Beyond Ordinary: The First Step...
Many of us have learned how to live a good life. We know how to be a good Christian girl and do good Christian things. For years I’ve been so unsatisfied with good living. The Word of God never calls us to it. Frankly I think many of us recognize our angst about our good Christian lives but we can’t put a finger on what leave us with the nagging sensation somewhere – somehow --- there’s more….
I believe in every believer, God places a yearning for more. Inside there is a God-given desire to live a life that really matters --- a life that makes a difference in us as well as those we live around.
The Bible speaks most clearly on this in Philippians 3:10-15:
“I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. All of us who are mature should take such a view of things.
If Paul has to strain toward the goal, should we? If Paul suggests that this is a natural yearning of the mature --- then our Godly discontent for more is spot on!
However, the key is not to DO more or BE more, necessarily, but to discern from Scripture – what is absolutely best. What is worth spending ourselves doing and being? What can go? How can we weed out the time-sucking volumes of seemingly urgent issues bombarding our days – but are of no eternal significance? How do we go about living in a way that goes BEYOND ORDINARY? We still need to go to Wal-Mart. We still need to clean up messes we did not make. We still need to vacuum, be at the teacher’s conference, transport the teenager, cook dinner, buy the little one new shoes, and teach our Sunday School class. We’re already exhausted! How can we do all we need to do --- and be all we need to be while straining toward the Savior who strained to take hold of us?
I want to live a life that reaches and stretches beyond ordinary living. I do not want to settle for anything close to mediocrity. I was made for EXTRAORDINARY, so says my God, AND SO WERE YOU……
Let’s spend our days together learning how to stretch beyond ordinary, one reach at a time...
Written on Tuesday, 19 October 2010 10:57 by Cheri Strange
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