“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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JOB 1-3
ACTS 7:1-19
1Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”
JOURNAL
Job's life is undeservingly dismantled. Stephen gives one of the greatest sermons ever spoken, right on the verge of his death.
These two epic moments turn the "prosperity gospel" on it's head. It is also the reason that I love this Einstein quote! I've used it a couple of times and it's always a good reminder. Every single moment of every single day is important and epic in one way or another. Yet it is so easy to get lost and let moments and days slip by without realizing the significance that each day brings. Why is that? Why are we so unmoved by the "ordinary".
I think it's because sometimes it just doesn't feel important or that it really matters. Life can have a way of slipping by until a crises moment strikes. I think that's why we tend to get so sucked into politics or sports or a public crises...we want to be a part of something that really matters. So why does it matter? While I can answer that question with the typical church response, those reasons are not very motivating in the moment. Especially when no great crises exist. There though is one of the fundamental reasons. Because the crises will come, the tough moments are waiting. Training my mind and heart to seek God at all times is the training ground for seeking him in the difficult moments of life. Just as Stephen here is ready for his moment and because of it...Saul is influenced and ready for God to meet him on the road to Damascus.
But what I believe is more important is that if I want to make the most of each moment of life I must treat each moment as vitally important. The ho hum, everyday parts of life are anything but ordinary. Reality is that amazing miracles, as well as awful tragedies, are happening all around me, all the time. No moment is ordinary, no moment is a waste, every moment is ripe with life-changing possibilities.
It is vital that as I live each day, that I become more aware of all that is around and before me and that I seek God so that I don't miss the miracles. I must seek God so that he will open my eyes to the wonder of today. I must seek God so that I am ready to act and take action. Today is waiting, full of adventure, drama and the fulfillment of God's epic story, of which I get to play a part. That...is anything but ordinary!!
20When asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs. 21Nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘There it is.’ For you see, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
I think it's because sometimes it just doesn't feel important or that it really matters. Life can have a way of slipping by until a crises moment strikes. I think that's why we tend to get so sucked into politics or sports or a public crises...we want to be a part of something that really matters. So why does it matter? While I can answer that question with the typical church response, those reasons are not very motivating in the moment. Especially when no great crises exist. There though is one of the fundamental reasons. Because the crises will come, the tough moments are waiting. Training my mind and heart to seek God at all times is the training ground for seeking him in the difficult moments of life. Just as Stephen here is ready for his moment and because of it...Saul is influenced and ready for God to meet him on the road to Damascus.
But what I believe is more important is that if I want to make the most of each moment of life I must treat each moment as vitally important. The ho hum, everyday parts of life are anything but ordinary. Reality is that amazing miracles, as well as awful tragedies, are happening all around me, all the time. No moment is ordinary, no moment is a waste, every moment is ripe with life-changing possibilities.
It is vital that as I live each day, that I become more aware of all that is around and before me and that I seek God so that I don't miss the miracles. I must seek God so that he will open my eyes to the wonder of today. I must seek God so that I am ready to act and take action. Today is waiting, full of adventure, drama and the fulfillment of God's epic story, of which I get to play a part. That...is anything but ordinary!!
20When asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs. 21Nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘There it is.’ For you see, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
LUKE 17:20-21
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