The taking up of the cross is not going to be something heroic or dramatic or enviable. It's going to be a daily practice of acceptance of small duties which you don't really like.
- Elisabeth Elliot -
There’s a lot of things we must do every day that are mundane. They’re usual, and maybe even a *chore.*
But all that mundane, all those little things that make you want to complain, or frustrate you, that may just be your cross. It may be what Jesus is wanting you to take up, without grumbling, and follow him.
Sometimes the greatest cross you will carry, is not some grand, huge thing. Sometimes it’s the tiniest little *chores.*
Cleaning up another mess.
Being kind to someone…again.
Walking a fussy baby as everyone else sleeps.
Not treating someone the way they did you.
Sometimes that is your greatest cross.
Sometimes that is the greatest thing that will make you look like Jesus.
The little lad’s mother made him a lunch to take with him that day, probably like she did every other day. She was doing the mundane. She was completing a *chore.* But God multiplied the mundane and made it a miracle. She was faithful in the “small crosses” and fed 5,000 people. Had she decided to rebel against the small things, who would’ve fed the crowd that day? The little lad would’ve been hungry, and so would’ve that host of people. Her faithfulness in the mundane gave Jesus something to turn into a miracle.
Be faithful in the “small crosses,” they may turn out to be your greatest witness.
There is power in the mundane🤍
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