Committed to Common

RESTAURANTS

My parents really enjoy spending their weekends eating out for dinner.

It's a multi-hour affair for them.

However, they aren't foodies.

They aren't trying different restaurants.

They just have the same three restaurants they go to over and over and over and over, etc.

And while these restaurants are good, they're fairly common places - pizza, salad, hamburgers.

And when they get visitors, they get the same treatment.

They are relentlessly committed to common (and the apple doesn't fall far from the tree - me.)

We have something similar happening here in Matthew 28.

MATTHEW 28:7

An angle is speaking to two of Jesus' closest disciples - Mary & Mary.

Towards the end of his address to them he says:

⁷ Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’

I am fascinated that Jesus is going ahead of them into Galilee.

Jesus' birth was marked by a common place - Bethlehem.

The bulk of his ministry was in a common place - Galilee.

Only a couple of times does he go to a prominent space - Jerusalem.

One would think that in this new resurrected state, he would have the disciples meet him in Jerusalem or Rome or Cabo.

But instead Jesus is relentlessly committed to common places - places like Galilee.

SPECTACULAR IN THE SIMPLE

This is the kind of thing that Jesus does over and over and over again.

He shows up to common people in common places with the out-of-this-world stuff.

He isn't obsessed with influencers.

He isn't showing up in trending locations.

He is showing up to quiet, common places.

This is amazing news for us.

We can actually anticipate running into God, having Jesus-encounters, and experiencing the Holy Spirit in our common homes, common churches, and common coffee shops.

Resurrection in the rudimentary.

It's an amazing thing.