IT IS NOT ORDINARY!

Dearly Beloved, IT IS NOT ORDINARY! “I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the Lord sustained me” (Psalm 3:5 NKJV). Every morning, my alarm clock would ring by 4.00 am and I would wake up and start my daily routine. At times, I would have woken up before the sound of the alarm. This has been happening for years, and I tend to think that it is ordinary or normal to wake up early in the morning either by the sound of the alarm or before its rings. However, it recently dawned on me that it is really not ordinary to sleep and wake up; it is a divine arrangement and grace. If you do not agree with this, place an alarm beside a dead man and see if he would wake up when the alarm rings. It is not ordinary or normal to sleep and wake up. Only God makes one do so every day. The psalmist realized this and declared, “I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the Lord sustained me” (Psalm 3:5 NKJV). “I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; For You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety” (Psalm 4:8 NKJV). “It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for so He gives His beloved sleep” (Psalm 127:2 NKJV). Sleeping and waking up are not the only things that we consider normal or ordinary. Breathing, eating, drinking, talking, hearing, walking, lifting of hands, and any other part of our body, in fact, everything that one can think of as ordinary or normal is not really ordinary and normal. It is God in His infinite mercy that has arranged them and allows us to be enjoying them. As part of His covenant with Noah after the flood, God said, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22 NKJV). He continues to keep that covenant! The implication of this is that we ought to always praise God for the gift of life every day and the ability to do what we are able to do each day. Thank You, Lord, for everything. It is not ordinary! In His service, Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor). Prayer Point: Lord, help me not to take the seemingly ordinary things of life for granted, but to always appreciate you for all these things.