So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Eating breakfast, answering emails, sitting in traffic — most of life is made of things too small to talk about at church. So it's worth pausing on a verse that puts "whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do" right next to the glory of God. Nothing here is too ordinary to matter.
That's a strange claim if you're used to thinking of God as interested only in the big, dramatic, obviously spiritual moments. But this verse says otherwise — the commute, the meal, the mundane Tuesday, all of it can be lived toward something bigger than getting through the day.
You don't have to have a tidy theology to feel the pull of that idea: that an ordinary life could actually mean something, all the way down to the small stuff. That's worth sitting with, whatever you currently believe about who's watching.
If the idea that ordinary life could matter to God sounds worth exploring, there's more to that thought than one verse can hold.
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.