Daily Devotional: Wednesday, July 3 – The Mundanity Of Life

“What has been shall be once more, what has been executed shall be executed once more; there may be nothing new underneath the solar.” — Ecclesiastes 1:9

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NASCAR races final for hours, usually requiring drivers to journey 500 or extra miles round and round a monitor in an effort to win. One lap usually seems to be lots like the subsequent. Not too lengthy after one pit cease, one other is important. Drivers velocity previous some, but get handed by others.

It’s clear — there’s a number of repetition in auto racing. However don’t confuse that repetition with a waste of time or a scarcity of progress and improvement. It’s exactly in these seemingly mundane moments of a race — on lap 134 and 267 and 382 — that drivers and their groups are setting themselves as much as safe a victory.

They’re continually scrutinizing and refining their racing methods, studying about how their automobiles are driving, and avoiding pitfalls alongside the best way, all within the hopes of setting themselves up for fulfillment when the checkered flag is waved. Followers might not discover them, however all choices all through an extended race are very important, as a result of on the finish, these lengthy races are often received by lower than a second.

Life can usually appear mundane and repetitive as properly. We get up, go to work or college, come dwelling, and prepare to do it another time the subsequent day. However for those who’re experiencing a season of mundanity proper now, don’t for a second assume your life is being wasted or that God shouldn’t be at work. God is within the mundane, continually sanctifying His folks, like He promised He would, and forming them into the folks He’s referred to as them to be.

A lot of the Ebook of Ecclesiastes within the Bible offers with the mundanity of life, and what’s the conclusion? “Now all has been heard; right here is the conclusion of the matter: Worry God and preserve his commandments, for that is the obligation of all mankind” (Ecclesiastes 12:13).

In order that random, seemingly unimportant, weekday when you don’t have anything distinctive on the schedule and your time is occupied with duties you’ve executed numerous instances earlier than and the day appears to exist solely to get you to the subsequent one, keep in mind a NASCAR race. God is at work in your life simply as a lot on that day as on probably the most memorable days of your life, all for the aim of main you to a crown of righteousness in eternity with Himself. The small choices you make and actions you tackle that day are making ready you for a way you’ll end the race when the time comes.

As pastor and writer Paul David Tripp stated, “If God doesn’t rule your mundane, then He doesn’t rule you. As a result of that’s the place you reside.”

— Kevin Mercer

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