The Daily Grind

A blog post by Neal Thornton:

So many of us get caught up in the daily grind. We are so blinded by our Franklin Planners and our 8-5 time slots, we miss what God is really trying to do in our lives. I've been thinking recently about what I may have been missing in my “ordinary” life.

Saturday afternoon I am inside Thompson-Boling Arena watching the Vols play the Memphis Tigers. Even though this was not my first experience watching the Vols play basketball, God showed me something inside the arena that He has never shown me before. Saturday’s attendance was roughly 21,000 people. All of them screaming at the top of their lungs “go Vols”. Then it hit me. What if that many people were screaming, “Crucify Him!”. I had this picture in my head of Jesus on the cross at center court. Wow, what a picture! Or this picture for a halftime show: being in the Roman Coliseum when they fed the Christians to the lions. God made think about what I am zealous for. If I can scream this hard at a basketball game, then shouldn’t I be just this excited on Sunday morning? Just a thought.