Your ordinary Christian life is extraordinary - Devotion
Have you ever felt that your efforts to do good somehow don’t seem to “count” enough? In our time, a subtle kind of legalism has emerged. It suggests that there is an invisible scale measuring goodness, a catalogue of compassion where certain acts carry more weight than others. In this way of thinking, moral worth is earned through visible causes rather than received as a gift. In this mindset, acts of service are ranked like Olympic events. Changing your child’s diaper or being a diligent employee doesn't score that high. To move up in the goodness catalogue, you are told you may need to show off "nobler" endeavours: travelling to distant continents, championing global social causes, rescuing street dogs, engaging in street activism, adopting the latest mandatory language of the day, or sharing social media posts about preserving (insert endangered animal). And of course, you need to be on the right side of History. While many of these things can be genuine acts ...
