I Choose Today to Worship in the Middle of the Mundane

The Ordinary Series – Part 4

Note: This post is Part 4 in The Ordinary Series. Part 3 will be shared as part of the upcoming podcast episode where I’ll dive deeper into what it means to be an ordinary kingdom partner. For now, I pray these words meet you right where you are.

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I think the ordinary is the hardest place to live.

See, the outcasts are looking for hope. They know they need saving.

The mountain movers? They see the kingdom and are actively pursuing it.

But those of us in the middle of the ordinary?

We’re just trying to make it through the day.

We’re folding laundry, checking off to-do lists, opening the fridge to figure out what can be made for dinner with whatever’s left.

We bandage another scraped knee. Pay another bill. Run another errand.

Facilitate another meeting.

Nothing about it feels like kingdom work.

Not to mention—I’m just an ordinary person living an ordinary life.

And it’s in that space that the lie creeps in:

This can’t possibly matter. This can’t be kingdom.

But it does. And it is.

Because God is in the business of using the ordinary in the ordinary to do the extraordinary.

The Bible is filled with people just like us.

• Abraham was the son of a man who carved wooden idols. But God called him to do something incredibly significant… and surprisingly simple: go. Just walk, and keep walking until God said stop. And through that obedience, God began a nation from which the Savior of the world would come.

• Noah was an ordinary man. But his obedience saved humanity and preserved the line of Christ.

• Mary was a teenage girl living an ordinary life. Until one day, an angel appeared and told her she’d carry the Messiah.

• David was a shepherd before he was a king.

• Peter, Andrew, James, and John were fishermen before they were world changers.

• And Lydia? Just a businesswoman—until she helped fund the spread of the gospel.

None of them were special by the world’s standards.

But when God showed up in the middle of their ordinary… they saw it.

And they responded.

So maybe kingdom work looks like folding the shirt with a prayer on your lips.

Maybe it looks like meeting a need before you’re thanked.

Maybe it looks like worshiping while you stir the pot, pay the bill, run the errand, or sitting at your cubicle .

Because those acts of ordinary faithfulness? They are kingdom work.

“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much…” (Luke 16:10)

God doesn’t overlook our little moments. He sees how we steward the small—because it’s never small to Him.

The difference isn’t in the task—it’s in the willingness to see God in it and respond when He calls.

So today, I choose to worship in the middle of the mundane.

To believe that even the smallest moments are sacred when surrendered.

To stop looking for fireworks and start paying attention to the quiet presence of Jesus, standing right here in the middle of it all.

Because when He decides to move through the ordinary?

I want to be ready.

This week, pause in the middle of your ordinary moments and whisper, “This is worship.”

Ask God to help you see the sacred in your routine—and to give you the eyes to recognize when the ordinary turns holy.

What’s one “mundane” moment in your life that you want to start viewing as worship? Drop it in the comments—or write it down somewhere as a declaration of faith.