This was the title of Dave’s sermon last weekend (or so he tells me… I was away in Somerset then, but it’s great to be kept in touch!) He talked about how an ordinary day holds the possibility of miracles and how in fact there are no ‘ordinary’ days in the Christian life.

Take, for example, Noah. There he is working on his boat, as he has done for the last few years. It was his project and he took great pains to make sure that it was the best it could possibly be. Then, one morning, it began to rain and this resulted in the great deluge that flooded the earth and destroyed every living thing apart from Noah and his family and animals on the ark.

Or what about that morning in the Sinai desert when an 80 year old shepherd named Moses, who is looking after his father-in-law’s sheep as he had done for 40 years, comes across a burning bush that won’t go out? As a result he becomes the one who leads his people out of the slavery of Egypt.

Or how about a young Jewish teenager named David, tending his father’s sheep on the hills of Judea, who hears his father call him to meet the man of God, and by sunset that day he would learn that he was to become the king of Israel? Indeed, that very day, he is anointed to that very position.

Or what about that day when a young virgin in Nazareth, going about her normal day, meets with an angel who tell her she is to be the mother of the Son of God?

More alarmingly, Dave also spoke on the parable of the rich fool, who built his barns but had no thought of God… the story of a man who was brilliant, but who forgot the one inevitable certainty that stares everyone in the face, and that is that we’re all going to die. He was ready for anything and everything … except that.

And it seems that God just stands back amazed at the folly of a person who would cover every base, and plan for every contingency (no matter how remote), and then forget about the one inevitable certainty, and that’s death.

We may not know what each day will bring (except the certain knowledge that each day has enough trouble of its own!), but we do know that there is a need for us to be prepared to meet God. Let’s not be fools, but let’s acknowledge our need for God, believe in His way of dealing with that need and commit ourselves to following Him. It’s as easy as ABC…