The Extraordinary Becomes Ordinary

When we went to Yellowstone, one of the things we were excited about was seeing some of the animals. They have bison, elk, moose, bears, and wolves. On your first day there, if you see one way over in a field, you slam on your brakes and pull over. After your first day of seeing a lot of elk and bison, you might stop if they are close to the road, or you stop if they are in the road, but that is about it. If you are driving along and tons of cars are stopped, you know it is a bear. One of the first ones we saw was maybe a football field away, and there were people everywhere trying to see it. I noticed, however, by the time we were blessed to see quite a few and fairly close, that we were just driving by slowly when we saw one. How did we go from slamming breaks and taking tons of pictures of a bear a football field away to just trying to get through the traffic with a bear on the side of the road? The extraordinary becomes ordinary. Funny enough, after talking to some locals at worship services Sunday morning, we found out the animals were more of a nuisance than anything.

Why am I writing about animals at Yellowstone? I think there is a spiritual parallel we can learn from. How excited were you when you first heard the gospel or any of the Bible, and how excited are you now? That might sting a little. Has the extraordinary become ordinary? I have heard that book taught before. I have heard a sermon like that before. How many times are we going to study that parable? Maybe when some of these things are said, the mouth speaks out of a heart where the extraordinary has become ordinary. Has the gospel become boring to me? Have I feasted on the junk food of the world for so long that I have lost my appetite for soul food? Let us rekindle our fire for the Lord!