11/13/08
Sometimes our steps seem not to illicit any exciting experiences, new insights, amazing wonders so we think of them as ordinary aka mundane. Mundane originally meant to belong to the world as distinct from the church; in other words our life in conjunction with the physical world. I suppose it is because I am a physical being but I thank Abba for mundane steps, for this world that He gave us to walk in. He could have made it much less divers, much more controlled; think about it He could have made it structured to the point that there was no freedom, no choice. Yet I often have to remind myself that mundane steps are good since it seems that there have been times in the organized church that it has been taught that things of this world were bad and we must strive to walk only in churchified ways doing churchy things as opposed to worldly things. Hmm, I seem to remember reading somewhere at the very beginning that Abba told man to be fruitful, fill the earth and take dominion; not despise the mundane and spurn anything to do with it. I find often for me I can feel guilty if I’ve not been ‘spiritual’ or accomplished what I consider to be spiritual work in my day, instead it’s been filled with mundane stuff, however my heart knows that the mundane steps I’m taking can be and many times are in direct obedience to His command to take dominion. I know dusting might not seem to be taking dominion but hey, try not doing it and see what takes over the furniture. Try not dealing with spider webs in the corners of your house, and see if after a bit that you find you are now living in Spiderville where the tiny spider has taken dominion.
The really incredible thing about the way Abba made us spirit and fleshly beings is that we can actually be in the throes of mundane steps and our spirit can be in close contact with Him none-the-less. I can and do in fact have some great spiritual times while ironing. I have had some incredible times while on the treadmill. My steps might be simple, repetitively going over the same small space and physically I might not be getting anywhere but my spirit is in Mozambique or some other far flung province interceding over what Ruach has laid on my heart.
Mundane also has to do with a woman’s clothes or ornaments. Now that’s an entirely different type of mundane one which was not part of this day.
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