The Mundane

This morning I had a kitchen full of dirty dishes, as I do almost every morning. Before washing them I felt the need to turn on some worship music, to stir up my spirit. I had to stir myself up to be hungry for His nearness and leading. I didn't feel very hungry this morning. Nor did I feel motivated to wash the dishes. Some days we have to stir ourselves up. No passionate, hungry and zealous person I know is that way effortlessly. If we want to live a life towards the Lord that is full of hunger and zeal and steadfastness, then we must work in the deepest, sometimes most exhausting ways to stir ourselves up and seek His face.

We all know that dragging weight that everyday life pulls us down to. Washing dishes, punching the time clock, feeding the kids, going to class… the regularity of life often makes us feel purposeless and tired.

I felt this way today. I wondered if I was doing anything at all to please God. I was wondering why there was such a dryness in my heart. During dry seasons and days like this I found that it helps to remember that life is found not in the shell of our actions; washing the dishes, going to work, singing worship songs...

But under all of those things is an opportunity to find more effectual fruit and purpose. Learning to fight the war of our flesh, pushing ourselves to find His joy in the mundane. Learning to stir ourselves up, to pray without ceasing, to bless and love gently all those who are around us, to grow in trust and obedience and joy.
God has called us to fight with Him the war of our minds and the battles of our hearts. To gain beautiful spiritual and internal things that are hidden behind the mundane of life. Life is actually quite amazing when we live all of our regular days with an eternal and inward purpose. We must stir ourselves up, plea with God, read the word like a battle plan, rebuke our insecurities, our fears, our anger.

God fill me up. Please God fill me up with passion and burden and a desperate desire for your nearness, for your ways. I am dry and weary, help me stop and sit and then go deeply into your heart to find your living waters. I am thirsty and I am not thirsty enough, come Lord Jesus come.