I don’t think anyone can ever pinpoint when you slip into your new normal. There’s not this big realization of ‘aha, there it is, now this is normal to me’. It just takes one blink and you’re there. The normality of waking up to spend time with God in the morning, leading into a day spent with children in a rural Indian village or going door-to-door to spread God’s Word in Jamaica, then ending the day with some rooftop worship before getting comfortable on your sleeping pad for the night. Before you know it, you begin to miss out on the wonder and majesty of God in your daily routine.
I’ve told numerous people one of my greatest fears is coming back from this year and forgetting it all. Forgetting the amazing things God has done in and through me. Forgetting that I serve a God of modern day miracles who speaks to me daily. Forgetting how very evident God is in the seemingly mundane as I step back into what will probably be comparably a very comfortable life in the states.
I woke up this morning realizing that I’m guilty of doing just that in the midst of this adventure. That even though God is blessing me beyond belief and I am quite literally halfway across the world somewhere in the middle of India, I am guilty of letting myself slip into the mundane. I’m guilty of forgetting everything God is doing in my here and now. Thank God that I’m realizing this now instead of eight months from now when it’s all too late. In just a blink, what was my new normal on the field will become regrets that I didn’t relish in the majesty of it all when I had the chance.
Lord, I’m sorry that there has ever been even an iota of a second spent not praising You for all of this. Lord, let me not take any day for granted whether on the field or when I’m home. Lord, let me seek Your face every single day in every interaction I have. You are faithful and all-powerful and in the whisper and no matter where I am in the world or what life I’m leading, that I would never allow myself to slip into the mundane. Lord, wreck me for the ordinary and help me to live an extraordinary life for You!
