Life changing moments can reshape our way of thinking, forever altering our
Beautiful moments … moments marked with life changing fibers woven together to create the individual God has created us to be.
Moments of heartbreak … moments marked with tears and scars as we realize the life we have built is not the life we have been called to live.
In an instant we are faced with the reality of the triviality of the situations we encounter daily as we realize that in a moment life can be changed and what we once believed to be the end-all-be-all of our existence is nothing more than a mere speed bump in the selfishness of a world focused on glorifying ourselves and achieving what we want when we want it, at whatever cost.
One split second can change it all, everything we believe to be important needs to be reevaluated. Two cars collided in an instant. By the grace of God, my best friend and her mom sustained a few scratches, bruises, breaks …
The Lord puts us in situations to be tested, challenged, and molded into the person that God has designed us to be. Individuals who glorify Him, who realize in an instant the value of our existence and the importance of living a life that exalts the One who sustains us, embracing the fact that tomorrow isn’t guaranteed.
“When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I no longer used childish ways.� (1 Corinthians 13:11)
As a child/youth there is so much trivial drama that could mean what we believe to be the end of the world. As I was growing up and especially as I meandered through college – I knew that my time was going to come, the time where I would be an MRS – the time where I would be enough for someone else. My life was supposed to be a Bachelors degree, marriage, a family … that was what was expected of me. I had high standards as a child but as time passed and I experienced the hurt that came from fruitless relationship after fruitless relationship, standards were lowered and my focus became on fulfilling this silly childhood fantasy.
If God knew the desires of my heart, wouldn’t He provide me with what I wanted when I wanted it … wouldn’t I be enough for someone? How trivial. How childish. As I am transitioning into the mindset of being an adult, I must realize that my life should be focused on others and not myself. For what I want is not important, I will not change the Lord’s plans for my life, and the more I fight to make my own way to an end that I desire, the further I will be from the will of God.
Moments in life we may never understand this side of Heaven … but praise the Lord that in one moment of Beauty and one moment of Heartbreak our sinless Savior carried the weight of the world on his back, suffering the lashes and the brutality for sins we have committed.
My life is a series of moments that have shaped me into the woman that is going out into the world to serve Him, the woman who is striving each day to exude Christ in a world that is experiencing such turmoil and unrest, a world that needs to know the love that I have found in Jesus, but more than that, the love they can find in Jesus.
In a matter of moments we can go from eternal separation to eternal life … and everyone deserves to hear that Gospel, so here I am, foregoing my desires not because I am this great selfless person, but because I serve a great and mighty God who is allowing me to be
