Over the course of the past 3 or 4 months I’ve been wrestling with my experience in God.  Part of the wrestling has been initiated because I don’t want to settle for an “ordinary” experience.  I don’t want to settle for an “ordinary relationship” with an “ordinary God” who is able to call me to an “ordinary life” where I live alongside an “ordinary family” who worships with an “ordinary church” out of a sense of an “ordinary obligation.”  So, how do you do that?  How do we break out of that “ordinary” sense of the mundane or routine.  To be honest, I’m not entirely sure.  Hence, the process of wrestling.  But here’s one thing I’ve landed on believing:  If God is still alive and active (I don’t doubt that He is), if His Word is still relevant and true (I don’t question that it’s not), if this world isn’t all that He intended for us to experience (my hope believes that it’s not), and if He intends to use me as part of His plan to redeem humanity and establish eternity then I should orient my life (every day) not on securing the expected and ordinary but seeking to fulfill His purpose.

Jesus taught us to pray with a similar sense when he said to his disciples, “Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored. May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done here on earth, just as it is in heaven.”