Sacred Ordinary Things

Cool thought today from PurposeDrivenLife.com's John Fischer which is reminiscent of thoughts we've discussed previously (especially in the Men's Group study of the book "The Pursuit Of Holiness")...


Jean-Pierre Caussade, an 18th century writer, once said, "What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the holiest thing that could happen to us."

Nothing stunts our spiritual growth more than the imaginary line by which we separate holy things from secular things. Christ lived a human life on a strictly human level, and yet all of it was holy--why? Can you imagine Jesus ever having a purely “secular” moment? Neither can I, and He is the example we are striving to emulate. Now, does that mean He walked around with His hands in a praying position all the time, spoke in a low voice, never laughed, and whenever He opened His mouth, scripture came forth? I don't think that's what he came to show us either.



It's time to welcome Christ into your world. All of it. Welcome Him to your coffee, to your cell phone conversations, to your chores around the house, to your commute, to the board meeting and the shopping mall and your home--to the kitchen, the family room, and the bedroom. All of it.


We exhaust ourselves trying to get into His world with no success, which is pretty silly when He already came to our world, lived in flesh like ours and intends to continue living in us daily. The Word became flesh, and it still is flesh--it's just that the flesh is now yours and mine. Until we believe this we will never understand what it truly means to be holy.


So let’s set aside all those flipped-out ideas about holiness and welcome Christ to our seemingly insignificant and frequently dysfunctional lives--it's where He wants to be anyway. And that's precisely where the enemy doesn't want Him to be, because once He is there, we discover that, in fact, all of life is sacred, and we can finally say along with Jean-Pierre Caussade, indeed, "What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the holiest thing that could happen to us."

Or as an unknown writer has said: "May I bring God pleasure as much by simply walking through my day today as I would by going to church or reading my bible or praying." There are in fact no spiritually insignificant moments in life.


You've been prayed for today...