101 Cups of Water
Devotion for Thursday , July 02, 2009 |
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101 Cups of Water: Relief and Refreshment for the Tired, Thirsty Soul by C.D. Baker 101 Cups of Water is accented with
striking black-and-white photographs and focuses
on the promises of God. Each short entry offers
you a transforming sip of the life of Christ so
that he will pour through you. Hardcover from
Waterbrook Press, Copyright 2008 |
A Cup of Significance
I'm tired of being so...ordinary.
All my life I've sought to be extraordinary. I want to be admired by others and also admired by myself so that I don't feel the shame of being just plain ordinary.
I used to think that ambition was an indication of emotional health.
Not so. Extraordinary people feel extraordinary pressure to continue being extraordinary. It's a prison from which one cannot easily escape. The effort to maintain "extraordinary," to be a somebody, even to be a super Christian, takes so much energy and consumes all one's joy and peace. Worse, any of us who are bound to maintaining an extraordinary spiritual reputation eventually find Jesus oddly irrelevant, even as impediment, to one's purpose.
Jesus came to free us from the prision of needing to be extraordinary.
So I am free to be ordinary in him...but that's not really ordinary at all.Click here to send this devotion to a friend!
