(Last in a series on Evangelism.)
Now, what am I to do with myself today? The bills need to be paid, the kids gotten through school, the grass cut into pieces (Aside: Why is the last grass row always on the outward cut? Answer: Fallen world), and in-between, I’ll likely worry I haven’t, once again, been enough of what God calls me to be. In other words, it’ll be an ordinary day. To top it off, I must tell you, I can get down in the disarray of these post-postmodern times—you know, these times of a nation gone off its God-founded rocker, its mass of people long-skedaddled from godly common sense.
Feel better? This should help:
It is good to start with the big picture in mind, asking oneself, Where am I in all of this? Answer: I’m here (no extra charge). Here where God is loving and just and wonderful and will make things right. That is to say, Jesus’ resurrection has already assured our eternal victory. Extraordinary days are coming! And, with such an inspiring eternity awaiting our souls, one asks with all rhetoricalness, Can there really be an ordinary day?
Meantime—and here weaves our evangelical point—God wants to use you and me to encourage fellow believers, from all walks and stages, further into love with Him (Heb 10:24-25). That and, for our purposes in this series, He wants us to reach those who don’t yet know Him with the good news of their salvation at hand (Mt 28:19-20).
Would we know it, in this evangelical role of ours, there are no superstars, only team players—”fellow workers,” as God puts it (1 Cor 3:9, ESV). For God is not looking for super-Christians with stellar abilities to reach the lost. He’s looking for standard-issue ordinary ones, living ordinary days, bringing ordinary availabilities to the foot of the cross. He supplies the stellar as needed; we submit our willingness. That is the joyful privilege, the delightful responsibility, the overarching purpose we get to be a part of every bill-paying, kid-schooling, grass-cutting day. Till those extraordinary eternal days God has in store arrive.
I hope this encourages you to share the Good News in the midst of your ordinary day today.
Kevin Murray
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