No Divide Between the Ordinary and Sacred

 

And he will show you

a large upper room furnished;

            prepare it there.

And they went and found it

     just as He had told them.

                  Luke 22. 12-13

(Exactly why does God

    want me to do this

                 mundane task

    that doesn't seem to matter?

Because it does enormously.

Sometimes we have no idea

       God's appointment in this.

But His sacred encounters

    and deeper purposes

    are embedded far more

    than we can see at the time.

We don't have to

                know the outcome

   to be faithful to Him.

God calls us to be awake,

   attentive, willing and ready.

God brings His fruitfulness

         to our faithfulness,

even in ways we may never realize.

Whoever prepared that spare room

   had no idea

what God was about to do with it.)

O LORD,

Help us to be sensitive

   to Your nudges

as we go about our days

that You would direct our hearts

    and establish our work

    for Your Kingdom

             and Your glory

  in what we only see as

       ordinary details.

Empower us to be faithful

   in whatever

You place before us today,

  full of grace and wonder,

     delighted that

     You have invited us

   into Your eternal designs.

Help us to be

      faithful to You,

   even in this familiar task today.

In Your eyes,

  nothing is mundane.

    All we do is

           sacred work.