The Heights Of Mediocrity

The Heights of Mediocrity

The world of cool is obsessed with reaching the top of the mountain.

Our movies are full of superheroes and secret agents. We worship the success of celebrities and athletes. We care more about who is going to win American Idol than we do about someone stepping out to sing his or her first church solo on a Sunday morning.

It’s not that we shouldn’t dream big. But living the mountaintop life most often has little to do with how many people we reach or whether our story would be big enough for the news.

Consider the story of Jesus. God came from the highest of heavenly heights to reach people at the lowest and most common levels. He most often made a mountaintop impact on people in ways that would be rejected by today’s gatekeepers of success.

So what may seem mediocre to the culture of cool is—according to God’s model—at the highest heights in the life that matters.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. —Henry Ward Beecher