The WOW Factor

Some days are incredibly ordinary.  We get up at the normal time and have an ordinary drive to work.  Our day progresses as you'd expect.  For lunch we have the usual and it's fine.  Not great, but fine.  We get home and we do the normal things until bed time.  Then more of the same tomorrow.

This is not a great story.  No, we need a wow factor to catch our attention.

We like to be impressed and amazed.  It doesn't really matter what it involves.  We are looking for the extremes.  There is actually a world record for the most toilet seats broken with your head in one minute.  Really.  The record is 46.  In one minute.  How did this ever become a thing?  Who was the first cranial toilet seat destroyer and is there much competition?

Or how about the record for holding the most live rattlesnakes in your mouth at one time.  It's not enough to be into reptiles or to be an expert on rattlesnakes. No they need to be held in the mouth and you need to hold a lot of them.  The record is 13.

Our faith is often like this.  We are looking for the spiritual WOW factor.  We want to be amazed and swept away in everything we do.  But most of us will never hear from God through a burning bush or see the Red Sea parted.  For most of us, it is a bit more subtle.

Watch this clip from Pastor Lowell.

We need to see past the wow factor and appreciate the every day.  Sometimes an ordinary day can feel like a miracle in itself.