We are tried by the ordinary

God try’s the heart of men by the ordinary things of life. We are tried in the daily events, the grind, the same ole, same ole.  What seems to be the just another day of regularity is in truth the very environment which the Lord is working in, in order to bring us to maturity in our inner man.
                               
God prepares men through the pressures of life. Some God-directed. Some self-imposed.
God is in the ordinary everyday things which are common and according to the established order of life.

We are ordinary people who live in the world but live on another level.  Jesus said, “We were in the world, but not of it.” Our source of life is different than the World. Our lives are directed from a different vantage point. We are to see as God sees. Say what God says. Do what God is doing in the common circumstance of life.

In Psalm 77, Asaph was having a hard time.  In verses 1-9 he complained to the Lord. Was anything wrong? No, but Asaph was thinking wrong.

In verse 10, he had a flash of revelation and made this statement, “This is my infirmity.” The definition of infirmity is to be rubbed, worn, put to grief. To sorry – like any man.

In other words, when Asaph realized he was thinking wrong, he made a change.

In verse 11and 12, he said, “I will remember/ talk of the works of the Lord.” He began saying what God was saying and doing.

Before this confession, he was saying what God wasn’t saying and doing. It was according to his own imagination.

When he began to say what God said, it changed his perception.  His apprehension of God’s Word changed and his reality changed. 

Spiritual growth means that we are becoming something other than that which we are naturally.

We live, work, etc.,  in the same place as other ordinary men and women, but on a different level because we are in the process of becoming who we were born again to be in Christ.

 Christ is the perfect man in us with the perfect temperament.  We, in Christ, are in the process of becoming someone other than we are naturally.

Christ in you, the hope of glory. Col. 1:27

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old thing are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”   II Cor. 5:17