As I was meditating on this line in “Open Up the Sky” “We won’t be satisfied with anything ordinary”. I believe the Lord challenged me with these thoughts.
What is ordinary? Things familiar, things easily explained, easily understood, common.
Ordinary is lost in the busyness, and beauty of other things. Ordinary goes unseen, unnoticed, ordinary things can become irritants’.
Has God become ordinary? Has He been lost in the busyness of life? Has He been unseen and unnoticed?
You say “no”, yet you anticipate how He should act, speak and move. You have determined what is right and appropriate behavior for speaking on God’s behalf.
Let God’s prophets and priests be common so they and their words can be explained away. DON’T let them speak with authority, don’t let them offend or upset anyone, don’t let them call out sin or destructive behavior. No, no they must be ordinary, so that their God can seem ordinary. For an ordinary God can be ignored, an ordinary God can be relegated to a place that fits our lifestyle our wants and desires. After all an ordinary god is a god of our own making.
I AM is nothing near nor comparable at all to ordinary. He is all together Higher, Bigger, Wholly, and Holy different.
You think you know Him but at best you’ve seen His backside, in reality all you’ve seen or experienced is the hint of His fragrance as He passed by.
DO NOT settle for a hint of Him. Don’t you know a hint becomes tainted by those things around it; the wind, light and other influences. A hint of Him has become a stopping place for many. You claim to know a hint of Him. You can possibly explain that hint of Him, that makes Him ordinary. If you can make Him a part of your routine then you have settled for at best a hint of Him if not a counterfeit of Him.
God will not fit into your routine, God will not and cannot be explained, understood or ignored.
He is to BE experienced and known. He is gently kind and ruthlessly severe at the same time.He is lovely and terrible at the same time. He is many things but ordinary is not one of them.
