Interrupting The Ordinary

And so today we're gonna be talking about what happens when Christ interrupts our ordinary.

What happens when Christ interrupts our ordinary? You see, the reality that me and you have to wrestle with is that monotony is inevitable in you and I's life.

There's a tedious routine to our life that can often be fatiguing, that can at times be discouraging, where it's just another day.

It's the same commute, the same responsibilities, the same conversations, the same task, or in our walk with Jesus, it's the same time to go to church.

It's the next night of life group.

It's another day where we're supposed to pray before our meal.

It's another opportunity to sit down and to open the scripture.

So monotony is inevitable, but we have a decision to make.

We can numb it.

We can chase entertainment to escape it, or we can see every single monotonous day as an invitation for Christ to step into our ordinary life and do things that we would have never dared think to do.

But if we're not careful, the monotony can turn to mediocrity.

And we can miss what God's trying to do.

We can crave comfort, control, compromise.

And Satan loves when we live this way because when we let monotony get to us, when we just check out in our walk with God, we take no kingdom risk.

We have no eyes set on the things that are above.

We have no craving for divine appointments.

We just go throughout our day missing what God wants to do.

But what he's gonna teach us this morning is that if we were to just stop and look at him and zoom out and ask him to invade our lives, to interrupt our ordinary, we would understand that he is able and desiring to do far more abundantly than we could ever ask, think, or imagine.

That's what happens.

when he interrupts the ordinary.

Most of our days are classified by a long obedience in the same direction with a hopeful expectation of what Christ might do.