just mundane?

This morning I have been feeling burdened to be praying about a conversation I had last night:

I was with a group of friends and we were talking about what faith is and isn't. Someone asked what Christ followers are supposed to live like in light of Christ's return and an eternity in heaven. I started sharing about living abandoned to God - that willingness to give up, lay aside, sacrifice - whatever God asks - to live the kind of life He is calling us to. I said I have never known someone like that (I have read about them).

Then someone else said - What if God needs people just to plod along and do the mundane things? ... I don't disagree that the mundane needs to get done - I do it all the time around my home and in my life. But do I think that God has called us to be His followers - His disciples - His people - JUST to do the mundane - no I do not think that at all! I said as much ... Look at all the amazing people - regular people like the disciples who did amazing things with the gifts that God gave them. They were wide open submitted to Jesus, full of the Spirit... and they helped change the whole world forever. Why can't we be like that too! We need to exercise the faith we have been given! We need to start moving forward and begin making small sacrifices now - learning what its like - so that when Jesus asks us to make bigger ones we are ready.

Oh how I wanted to scream after last night - and all the apathy, indifference, questioning looks,  and even a look of disdain - at the notion that maybe we aren't living as Christ has called us to. How lazy and weak and tired we all are! I know I have much more to learn and grow, sacrifice and do!

Father, rain down Your Spirit on us! Change us, open us, free us from ourselves! Oh change me God - I don't want to be this version of myself ever again - I want to be full of You! Full of love and grace - and I want to be a part of the amazing things You have planned - show me what to do!



Luke 9: 23-25
Then he (Jesus) said to the crowd, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross daily, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but are yourself lost or destroyed?

Romans 12: 1-2
And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.