GOD MEETS US IN THE MUNDANE

2 Corinthians 3:17 NLT For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

What’s your routine in the morning? A cup of tea or coffee? Exercise? Dog walk? Kids? I was chatting with a friend who had recently been on holiday but had such cold weather she was glad to come home and just get back to the routine of her daily life. She was appreciating the mundane things she had previously wanted to get away from, and she was saying how God showed her He meets us in the mundane.

That phrase struck a cord with me and it’s quite a revelation in itself. At times we  might feel like we want to get away from the everydayness of life which sometimes pulls us down, but there is joy to be found in the everyday. It just gets hidden by other stuff!😊 

We know having a break helps us keep things in balance but it’s not always possible, so the Lord wants us to invite Him in to wherever we are at the minute, into our everyday, so He can lift us up to where the ordinary can become His extraordinary, just because He is in it with us. 

He’s asking us to be content with where we are at the minute, on the way to where He may be taking us, spiritually or physically, because He’s either working something in us, or out of us!😊

It’s always a matter of perspective. On one occasion the disciples were in prison, beaten and sore, and yet they praised God in the middle of their very distressing circumstances. Why? Because they were aware of their God being there with them, and He hadn’t changed, just their circumstances.

Father, help us to realise that when You’re in everything with us, then it raises it and us to another level. Help us appreciate the mundane, the ordinary, because You are there with us in it, and to remember where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Freedom from mediocrity, or anything that seeks to pull us down. Freedom to draw on Your joy and peace in it all. In Jesus name. Amen.

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