No Form Nor Comeliness

"He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we should see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him." (Isaiah 53:2)

We are attracted to the spectacular, the extraordinary, and relegate times in the valley to just being "life as usual." There are those times on the mountaintop, to be sure, but, just like Peter, we must come down and live in the valley.

"The mount for vision, but below
The daily paths of duty go."

Jesus was a root out of dry ground. Have we learned to recognize him in the most mundane details of our lives? Moses tended sheep on the backside of the desert for forty years. Joseph was in prison for so long. But God was working all the time, and the results far surpassed everyone's expectations.

Most of life is ordinary, but that is where He calls us to live out the vision. It may well be with no tangible sense of His Presence or nearness, but He looks for the life lived for Him in the valleys. "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death ... "