Blogging helps me clarify my thots and process what i need to, and yes...i realise that this is the way i journal. Introspectively, and so that i can grow. Challenging myself constantly. Acknowledging my weakness, the Lord's strength, and the countless trials that come unbidden.
Reading this book, 'Seizing your divine moment' by Erwin Raphael McManus and it is challenging me...
"The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time. Sometimes you wish that God would check your calendar first. The ironic part is that our schedules get packed with the mundane and ordinary, and we become irritated with God when he interrupts us with the miraculous and extraordinary. The bible is full of stories of people who were rudely interrupted by God. We read them and long to have the kind of adventure experienced by those men and women. Yet when God interrupts us, are we willing to respond at a moment's notice?"
Opportunity and dilemma, all in a single moment. The path is thick with mystery, danger, the unknown, but isn't that what an adventure is all about? =) The journey begins now - in this moment. That's the mystery of a single moment. It is small enough to ignore and big enough to change your life forever. Life is the sum total of what you do with the moments given you. The divine potential of a moment is unlocked by the choices we make. Each moment's personal, historic and eternal value is directly related to the choices we make. Choice unlocks the adventure. Somehow, the power of choice has been moved from the spiritual to the practical. We have a created a dichotomy between being spiritual and living everyday life, one that was never meant to be there! And we have forgotten that God created us with the power to CHOOSE, He has given us free will. This capacity is perhaps the greatest expression of being created in the image of God!
The most spiritual activity we will engage in today is making choices. All other things we do, worship, prayer, meditation...these are all done in context of choice. Did i choose to worship? Or am i worshipping only cuz it is "time to worship?" Am i choosing to worship or am i just standing and mouthing the words? It's all a choice. Do i feel angry and unable to worship? It is a choice, hold on to anger (or any other emotion) or release it and cling on to God.
"And whatever you do , don't underestimate what you may find, when you seize a divine moment, you instigate an atomic reaction. You become the human catalyst creating a divine impact! "
Lord, teach me to seize the moments boldly, making the most of them and temper my emotions so that i'll not be irritated when you interrupt my plans with your divine ones!
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