Am I Content With Ordinariness?

"Have you seen God in the ordinariness of your life? Have I? Or have we fallen into the trap of believing that somehow or another God only operates in the spectacular and in the extraordinary, and so we're going through day after day after day looking for something spectacular and something extraordinary--missing the fact that God is speaking in the ordinariness of everything. In a bowl of apples on a table. In a meal well-prepared. In a bird on a feeder in a garden. In a conversation with a friend in the backyard. Although He has a whole universe to care for, He turns His gaze on a certain man or a certain woman in Cleveland, Ohio, and He says, 'I know your name, and it is graven on the palms of My hands, and although you find yourself cast about on a universe that is going who knows where, as surely as I took Naomi off and brought her back, I'm looking after you, too.'

Don't miss Him in the moon as it shines through the clouds, for in these simple gestures God is sustaining and guiding His children, until at the last, He will dispel all the darkness. He will dispel all the darkness."

-- Alistair Begg, in a sermon entitled "God of the Ordinary"