"...that you walk worthy of the vocation to which you were called."  Eph.4:1

Significant living does not negate ordinary living. Most days are ordinary. Most weeks are routine. The great call in scripture is not to avoid ordinariness; but to infuse it with new meaning, new purpose, and new vitality. This is exactly what Paul is getting at in this pivotal passage in the book of Ephesians. Having spent three chapters unpacking for us what it means to be "blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ"(Eph.1:3), he now turns to our earthly responsibilities. And the primary word he uses to describe these responsibilities is "walk". Not "run", not "jump", not "leap"; but just "walk". How ordinary!

In fact the word for "walk"-peripateo-literally means to "walk around". Walk around doing our daily chores. Walk around attending our weekly meetings. Walk around keeping our lawns mowed, our teeth flossed, our meals cooked. What can possibly be significant about these things?

The key is to not just "walk", but to "walk worthy". Ah, this changes everything. When releasing and reflecting the glory of God is introduced into our walk, we are no longer just walking. We are moving monuments to what God's power can do in and through broken, frail humanity. The ordinary is transformed into the significant; not by avoidance but by interjection. As John Calvin put it so well, "The first duty of the Christian is to make the invisible kingdom visible." And most of that visibility occurs in the routine.