Relocating To Elfland

This will sound weird, but stay with me. I believe we don’t take the “small stuff” in life seriously enough; and the reason we don’t take it seriously enough is that we don’t see it as small enough.

Interpreted: I think most serious Christians experience moments when they look at their lives and say, “I’m just wasting my time on a lot of small stuff. My everyday life is consumed with things that really don’t matter.” But isn’t it in the everyday stuff (washing your car, emailing your boss, eating a tuna sandwich, waiting for the bus, sanding a porch rail, combing your hair, watching a ballgame, tickling your three-year-old) where you make or break the business of glorifying God in the world? It’s here, not in the prayer closet or the pew, where a lot of people screw up the whole business. The “small stuff” is vastly important.

But of course it’s only vastly important if you believe there really is such a thing as glorifying God in the world. It’s only if you see what a massive project God’s kingdom is, what a big deal His covenant is, what a lot God is up to in the long ages of His world, that you begin to see how tiny your life is; and precisely when your life gets shrunk down to this size, you see that you are part of something huge and eternally important, something that transcends your small life quite infinitely. And so everything you do matters. Not because it will be the most important thing ever in this world, but because it’s part of the most important thing ever.

Okay, got that off my chest. Back to the small stuff.