Maybe somebody should invite her to the next conference for college students to provide a useful counterweight to the constant calls for students to go out and do something amazing and world-changing for God. Let's see if we can build a successful conference for young adults around this verse: "Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you" (1 Thessalonians 4:11).We are tempted to feel like we aren't doing enough for Jesus unless we are saving African villages, writing inspirational books, leading a church with a massive membership roll, or adopting children from Haiti. We tend to measure success in the currency of adventurous mission trips, large ministry followings, and educational accolades. And we can feel like our life is fairly insignificant if much of our time is spent changing dirty diapers, teaching the same students every day, or working a fairly boring job. In a time when many, including well-known evangelicals, build a platform around living a “life with impact,” “changing the world,” and “making a difference”—which they announce through blogging and Twitter feeds—we’re tempted to view the routines and ruts of everyday life with derision.
In other words, Paul calls us to be plodding visionaries.
"That might sound boring," as Russell said in the movie Up, but in the end we may draw the same conclusion as Russell: "But I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most."
It's certainly the so-called boring stuff that God will remember most. "God has always been a God who loves to display his glory in the seemingly insignificant people or the moments that the world deems unworthy and useless" writes Reissig, citing 1 Cor. 1:27.
Read Reissig's post here.
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