Are you ordinary or extraordinary?

You are still worldly [controlled by ordinary impulses, the sinful capacity]. For as long as there is jealousy and strife and discord among you, are you not unspiritual, and are you not walking like ordinary men [unchanged by faith]? For when one of you says, “I am [a disciple] of Paul,” and another, “I am [a disciple] of Apollos,” are you not [proving yourselves unchanged, just] ordinary people? (1 Corinthians 3:3-4 AMP)

Todays blog post is contributed by David Trotta:

In the above verse, God is strongly exhorting us to not live an ordinary life.  The definition of ordinary is “the expected or commonplace condition or situation.”  Unfortunately, a common condition we see in the church is to be controlled by our sinful nature and live like the world does, but God doesn’t want us to be common.  He is calling us to something greater.

And, if God doesn’t want us to be ordinary, then it stands to reason He must want us to be the opposite – to be extraordinary!  The definition of extraordinary is “beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional.”

God is calling us from usual to unusual, from common to exceptional.

So, what’s the difference between an ordinary life and an extraordinary life?  One word – Jesus.  Jesus dwelling in us gives us the power to be extraordinary.  He is the “extra” in our “ordinary.”

Don’t get me wrong, being ordinary is not bad, unless you were given the power to be extraordinary and you still choose to live ordinary.  It’s like being given the power to have victory over sin, but instead, let sin continually have victory over you.  It’s like being given the power to love unconditionally, but instead, love with strings attached.

Through our born again experience, we have become a new creature with the life of Christ in us, so we should be anything but ordinary.