“Call not thou common” (Acts x. 15).
“There is nothing common of itself” (Rom. xiv. 14).
We can bring Christ into common things as fully as into what we call
religious services. Indeed, it is the highest and hardest application of
Divine grace, to bring it down to the ordinary matters of life, and
therefore God is far more honored in this than even in things that are
more specially sacred.
Therefore, in the twelfth chapter of Romans, which is the manual of
practical consecration, just after the passage that speaks of ministering
in sacred things, the apostle comes at once to the common, social and
secular affairs into which we are to bring our consecration principles. We
read: “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor
preferring one another; not slothful in business; fervent in spirit;
serving the Lord.”
God wants the Levites scattered all over the cities of Israel. He wants
your workshop, factory, kitchen, nursery, editor’s room and
printing-office, as much as your pulpit and closet. He wants you to be
just as holy at high noon on Monday or Wednesday, as in the sanctuary on
Sabbath morning.