You're not in the wrong life.

There’s a feeling most of us know but rarely talk about. It creeps in on an ordinary Tuesday, or standing at the kitchen sink, or sitting at the same desk in the same room with the same flickering screen.

It’s the feeling that real life - meaningful life - is happening somewhere else. Somewhere you haven’t quite managed to reach yet.

I felt it again this week. And then I sat with Acts 17:26-27.

Paul is standing in Athens, surrounded by philosophers and clever people with very loud opinions. And he says something quietly extraordinary. He tells the crowd that God determined the times and the exact places where they should live. Not allowed. Not permitted. Determined. Set. Placed.

Your kitchen. Your commute. Your school gate. Your break room at work. Paul says these aren’t accidental. They’re on purpose - deliberately chosen, with you in mind - so that the people around you might reach out and find God for themselves.

Brother Lawrence, a 17th-century monk who spent his whole life peeling vegetables and washing pots, wrote something that has stayed with the church for four centuries: that God regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it’s performed.

The ordinary is the work. The placement is the mission.

I’m offering one very small step in today’s devotional - something you can say as you walk into any room this week. It’s short, honest, and entirely doable.

You’re not waiting for life to begin. You’re in it right now.

👉 Watch today’s five-minute devotional here:

With you in the ordinary.

Rob

Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/you-might-already-be-a-leader-heres?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true