It's okay to be ordinary...

I've been mulling over this concept for the past week or so - how to glory in the ordinary.

Let me back up a few steps and ask a question: What is this obsession that our society (really, the world) has with super-stardom? Why is it that Hollywood stars (and not so “stars”) have such a hold on our attention? Why do sports “stars” cause fixation with millions of followers? Why do we turn our heads and do double-takes when we see someone “famous”?

What is it within us that draws our attention to others like that in such a way that makes us even frustrated or disappointed with our “ordinary” lives?

I'm struggling to make my own thoughts & feelings tangible as I recognize that it is in the ordinary that God does His extra-ordinary work. It is in the ordinary person that we see our extra-ordinary God!

I'm really wanting to develop this concept more as I have come to realize how ordinary I really am and how important it is to accept that truth so that my extra-ordinary God can use my ordinariness to show His extra-ordinariness to the world.

Our society is so caught up with trying to be extra-ordinary that everyone pursues his/her own path - usually in opposition to that which God desires - and finds themselves trying to be something they're not, thus making themselves ordinary. How many people really reach the level of super-stardom? How many people really will be remembered by the world 10 years after their deaths? How many of us would be recognized by millions of people if our mugs were put on national (or international) TV and nothing else said?

I just want to impact the lives of the folks with whom I'm in daily contact - the ordinary folk, through ordinary relationships in ordinary living. BUT, all of that done under the leading, loving, guiding hand of an EXTRA-ordinary God moving in and through and around me! THAT'S an extra-ordinary life!

“I’m just an ordinary guy walking with an extraordinary God.”

Now, THAT would be an excellent tombstone inscription!