Just some early morning thoughts from me to you…
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29: 11 (NIV)“Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little.
For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.”
Philippians 4: 11-13 (NLT)
It always seems to be up to us.
The expectations of others hit us, and we’re asked— “what have we done, what have we done lately, or what are we going to do now.”
Well-meaning others remind us that stretching out before us is a life-full of possibilities.
A life full of potential, with opportunity after opportunity to do something special.
Moments to stand out above the crowd.
Moments to do all we ever dreamed of doing.
What can we do? What should we do?
What are we supposed to do?
Or is there a different paradigm, a different approach, as we look at our life today, and as it stretches out before us.
God reminds us— “For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
The Apostle Paul shares this from his own journey with the hope of Christ he holds deep in his heart, when he shares— “Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have…For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.”
I wonder if “doing” is the wrong focus. What have we done. What can we do.
I wonder instead if “being” should be our focus, as we look at the path stretching out before us.
Being all we can be. Being all who God created us to be.
With Him. Who we are inside. God within, directing our choices and steps.
Won’t we then be hearing God cheering us on, as we embrace that approach for each day of our lives? Simply being all we can be with Him.
Believing in His plans, dreams and hope for our future He has laid out before us.
Knowing that as we move into and through all our moments in life with Him, we can be, and will be, all He created us to be.
Claiming God’s promise, of which the Apostle Paul reminds us, that as we move into and through all the moments of our life—He is always with us, and in His strength, we can be everything He created us to be.
Our God, always there.
In all our moments in time.
In the song she sings as no one else can, “One Moment in Time,” Whitney Houston shares this reminder for us as we move forward with the God who created us—
“Each day I live, I want to be, a day to give the best of me.
I’m only one, but not alone.
My finest day is yet unknown.
I broke my heart, fought every gain.
To taste the sweet, I face the pain.
I rise and fall, yet through it all,
This much remains,
I want one moment in time,
When I’m more than I thought I could be.
When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away,
And the answers are all up to me.
Give me one moment in time,
When I’m racing with destiny.
Then in that one moment of time,
I will feel, I will feel eternity.”
Your life, my life, marked by simply being all He created us to be.
In all our moments in time now, and those stretching out before us.
Strengthened, directed, and encouraged by the God of all our moments.
In His Name–Scott
You will be lifted as Whitney Houston sings “One Moment in Time.”
