Hi Everyone
Stand in the shoes of the moment. God has given each of us the gift of moments every day. Moments are very small amounts of time, that come and are gone in a heartbeat. Yet as we think about a moment, it is not just a measured amount of time. Moments are inherently valuable as they represent the gift of life. As each moment passes by, we are not always conscious of these priceless pearls of time. Our routines, as important as they are, keep us rolling through life; often on automatic pilot. The idea of moments isn’t even on our radars. Additionally, our moments are often bombarded by the wrecking balls of pressure, squeezing, rather than savouring our moments. Restlessness and impatience knock our moments out of existence. The fast pace of our culture and the conglomerate of options, laid out on the banquet table of assortment, breeds an insatiable craving for what is next and next and next and we miss the chance to stand in the shoes of the moment. Instead, we put on the shoes of the future.
God has designed us to inhabit time and to lay hold of the precious gift of each moment. If we draw a mental image of the timeline of life, we see that every time a moment passes, we move further along the timeline of our years. In Ecclesiastes 3 we read about the times and seasons of life and God’s intention for us to indwell those seasons, rather than seeking to stride ahead. Some of those seasons are good and others difficult, but the moments that make them up are still a gift. We need to learn to be grounded in our moments and to stand in the shoes of the moment, rather than wandering off on the pathway of the future. It is God who orders our steps (Psalm 37:23). It’s time to take our fingers off the eject button. If we are always wanting to catapult as quickly as possible into the next moment, we will not only waste God’s gift of time, we will miss the inherent gift that God has wrapped up in every moment. What would life look like if we learned to live more deeply in the present moment; to stand in the shoes of the moment?
So, friends get your “moments” on today.
Best days to come
Wen
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