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You woke up this morning no butler drew your bath, no
maid laid out your clothes, and
your orange juice wasn’t freshly squeezed. It’s not
Christmas and it’s not your birthday either it’s like
every other day, a common day! Common cars or should I
say buses take you to common jobs that you sometimes
take seriously but not enough for you to call it an
extraordinary experience. After all, you’re not clearing
your diary to have lunch with Beyonce or making time to
appear before the house of parliament. A common life
punctuated by occasional weddings, graduations, job
transfers………… just a few highlights but mainly the
day-to-day rhythm that you share with majority of
humanity.
If this describes you, take heart because I know a man
who lived thirty of his thirty-three years a common
chap; except for an incident at the age of twelve, that
caused his mother to go berserk from searching for him
for three days, there was no record of what he did in
those thirty years. If you subscribe to “golf today” or
if you are pal with “Manchester United stars” please,
don’t bother reading the rest of this article but if
you’ve never heard of them, then you sure can identify
with this next verse of scripture.
“Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the
brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon?
And aren't His sisters here with us?" So they were
offended by Him” Mark 6:3 MSG
Though he was a common carpenter’s son living in the
city of Nazareth, a single camel map dot on the edge of
boredom! Though his life was common, Jesus’ attention to
it wasn’t. The things he said in his last three years
shows that his uncommon approach to his common life
prepared him for his uncommon call! How else can you
explain the carpenter, maker of yokes saying, “For my
yoke is easy and my burden is light”? Matthew 11:30
He must have his share of brushing off sawdust from his
eyes for him to say, “Why do you look at the speck in
your brother's eye, but don't notice the log in your own
eye?” Matthew 7:3
The memory of the morning and the evening sky made him
declare “When evening comes you say, 'It will be good
weather, because the sky is red.'” And in the
morning, he said,
“Today will be stormy because the sky is red and
threatening.' You know how to read the appearance of the
sky, but you can't read the signs of the times”
Matthew 16:2-3
Jesus listened to his
common life, are you listening to yours?
Rain pattering against
the window, a baby’s giggle on a crowded bus, seeing the
sunrise while the world sleeps, is God not able to peak
through a diaper change or a Thursday wet day?
Next time your life feels ordinary please pay attention
to your work and world
Take notes on your life! Perhaps they aren’t so
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