Those Blessed Blahs

by an Old Disciple

There is nothing in my writings for the “Super Saint.” Those superior beings that would have us believe they do not experience the everyday “downsittings and uprisings” of us common folk.

This “spiritually elite” crowd, by their teachings, has been the cause of more of God’s people giving up on themselves and God than any other group. They set before us a life that is not attainable, for us or them. “Woe unto you...for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.”

Our lives are not generally lived on the mountaintop, but rather in walking through the valley. It is not party time all the time. The normal Christian life is changing diapers, mowing the lawn, going to work, doing dishes, studying for exams, and a host of other duties we would consider drudgery. The above are anything but stimulants for living the deeper life.

The following are some excerpts from Oswald Chambers quotes on drudgery. I believe he excels all others on this subject.

"Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is.”

“The greatest hindrance of our spiritual life lies in looking for big things to do; Jesus Christ “took a towel. . . .”

“Are we refusing to enter the domain of drudgery?”

“Through the drudgery of work the man himself is developed.”

“The most desperate piece of drudgery, washing fishermen’s feet.”

"It requires the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours in every day as a saint, to go through drudgery as a disciple, to live an ordinary, unobserved life.”

“It requires the inspiration of God to go through drudgery with the light of God upon it.”

"The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley. We never live for the glory of God on the mount; we see His glory there, but we do not live for His glory there; it is in the valley that we live for the glory of God.”

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