My life is completely ordinary and I feel like that is not enough. Does God want something bigger from me?

“For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.”

Zechariah spoke to returned exiles rebuilding a temple that was visibly poorer than the one their grandparents remembered, and older people wept at the comparison. The prophet's word addresses the contempt they felt for their own small progress, and puts God's attention squarely on that unimpressive building site. Small beginnings are not treated here as failed versions of big ones.

“And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.”

Paul writes to believers unsettled by expectations of Christ's imminent return, some of whom had abandoned their work over it. His instruction is almost anticlimactic: a quiet life, your own responsibilities, work done with your hands, a good reputation with the people outside the church. He presents ordinary faithfulness as the ambition rather than as the fallback for people who could not manage more.