Every though about those big clock towers with the huge hands showing the time from over a hundred yards away? Just think, typically a small rolling ball steel ball travel in grooves across a tilted steel plate until it trips a lever on a plate. This tilts the plate back in the opposite direction, reversing the direction of the ball and advancing the clock hands. In the course a year, the steel ball will travel nearly 2,500 miles back and forth, having never really gone anywhere.
If not mindful, it is easy for us to feel trapped by our daily routine when we don’t see a larger purpose. Paul, the apostle in his ministry longed to be effective in making the gospel known. We could allow most anything to become monotonous in our lives like; traveling, preaching, teaching, and especially being confined in prison as with Paul. Yet he believed he could serve the new church in each of these situations.
Routine becomes a chain and burden when we can’t see a purpose in it. Paul’s vision reached beyond any limiting circumstance because he was in the race of faith to keep going until he crossed the finish line. By building faithful routines in every aspect of his life, Paul found meaning even in the routine of life.
We certainly can too. God can transform our routine into meaningful service for Him.
Truly, allow the Lord to give us renewed vision and energy to pursue the goal of making the gospel known in the midst of our daily routine. Share a daily practice which you can tie to share the loving nature of God with another. Leave a comment, your share will bless another. Plus, I will write you back. ??See you next Sunday.??MJ