J. Hudson Taylor once said, “I learned to think of God as the one great circumstance of life, and all lesser external circumstances as necessarily the kindest, wisest, best because they were either ordered or permitted by Him.”
We usually think that God is in action in the extraordinary circumstances of life, or that he especially caters to those whose lives are designed for special religious activities. But God may be included in the commonplace activities of the mother who washes the clothes, the father who provides the bread, the teen-ager who carries his books from room to room, or that wiry junior who chooses the tree in the front yard for his tree house.
God is not one whom we greet only on Sunday; He is the Person we work with all week. His is the transforming power that takes the ordinary and brings it to a height of glorifying God. “Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” This ought to beautify the most drab and incidental affairs of life, and transform the rut into a river of joy.
Let Him become the Great Circumstance of your life. If we, as the children of God, possessed this secret, there would be less frustration in our lives and less frowns on our brows. Complaint, worry, fret, and fear would be strangers to us if your hearts could only say, “There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee,” and, “For me to live is Christ.”
A minister once said to his wife, while watching her perform the many duties of a mother, “Wife, you are doing more than washing clothes and mixing formulas; you are raising a man for God.” This is Glorified Humdrum!
--Don Polston
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